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Overview of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service’s Disease Resistance Screening Center

The Resistance Screening Center (RSC) in Asheville, NC serves the tree improvement community by receiving progeny seed from breeding programs, exposing seedlings to disease, and evaluating resistance phenotype responses. These data provide early results that may be used to infer performance of field-grown trees in disease-prone areas and can also be used to calculate heritability estimates of resistance traits for future breeding efforts. The RSC is administered within the Forest Health Protection unit of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service’s State, Private, and Tribal Forestry division, serving any organization engaged in tree seed production, tree improvement, disease resistance, species conservation, restoration, or stewardship activities.


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Author(s): Kathleen (Katie) McKeever

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Volume 66, Number 2 (2023)

Volume: 66

Number: 2