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Résumé :
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The objectives of this project are clearly : l) to develop knowledge on wood quality of the lowland larch timber resource mostly for its most original and economically important properties : natural durability and mechanical strength, 2) to prepare silvicultural guidelines and stand management scenarios allowing combination of maximum timber production, high wood quality and respect of environmental issues, 3) to select new improved varieties (for growth, architecture, wood quality and resistance to pests) and to improve efficiency of variety creation and selection tools, 4) to develop and optimize techniques for mass-production of reforestation material either by generative (seed) or by vegetative (cutting and embling) propagation systems. Work carried on during the first year has been mostly i) to define and agree among participants on the methodology to follow in the different studies and ii) to prepare material and launch experiments. During the second year, experimentation is underway in all tasks and sub-tasks and first results become already available. Most of them are still preliminary but some -relying on older experiments- can be right now considered as well-established.
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