The Journal "Agriculture and Forestry"
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Year 2011, Volume 57 Issue 1
| Year : | 2011 |
| Volume : | 57 |
| Issue : | 1 |
| Authors : | Jelena LAZAREVIC |
| Title : | GENETIC RESOURCES IN FORESTRY SECTOR OF MONTENEGRO |
| Abstract : | The conservation and the use of forest genetic diversity are the cornerstones in sustainable forest management. Genetic diversity ensures that forest trees can survive, adapt and evolve under the changing environmental conditions. Montenegrin forests possess extremely valuable genetic resources. Given that the obvious richness of forest tree diversity and biodiversity as a whole, it is necessary to make the efforts for conserving it, and also presenting it. It is essential to better familiarise both the professional and the wider public in Montenegro with the abundance and the significance of these forest genetic resources, and the need for conserving them. The forest genetic resources of Montenegro are not presented in the right manner internationally, and it is both necessary urgent to include Montenegro in international initiatives in the field of genetic resource protection. A partial in situ protection of the forest genetic resources in Montenegro is accomplished through a network of protected zones, within national parks and protected zones. Finding their stronghold within the Law on Planting Material, activities in the protection of genetic diversity of forest trees in Montenegro keep growing. 16 seed objects have been selected, and adequate legislative framework for these activities has been created. Further work on the seeking and selecting of these seed objects has been announced, as well as the establishment of seed orchards for the targeted species of forest trees. However, it is necessary to start the collection of seeds in the seed objects as soon as possible, as well as production of planting material out of seeds of autochthonous origin. As a specific form of ex situ conservation, it is necessary to establish the forest tree seed bank, for which we can use the current capacities within the Seed bank of agricultural crops in the Biotechnical faculty in Podgorica. It is necessary to intensify scientific research in the field of Montenegrin forest tree genetics. The genetic characterisation of Montenegrin forest tree populations, according to the available data, has not yet been conducted. However, the genetic characterisation of fungi from Montenegro has already begun. Fungi constitute an integral part of a forest’s ecosystem. A lot has been already been conducted in the field of inventory and the study in the diversity of fungi in Montenegro. The Mycological Collection at the Montenegrin Mycological Center, as well as the Collection of Mycelia cultures in the Biotechnical Faculty in Podgorica, are of special value for the conservation of fungi. |
| For citation : | Jelena LAZAREVIC: GENETIC RESOURCES IN FORESTRY SECTOR OF MONTENEGRO. Agriculture & Forestry, Vol. 57. Issue 1: 51-71, 2012, Podgorica |
| Keywords : | Forest Genetic resources, Montenegro, conservation, genetic characterization, Forest seed bank, fungi. |
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