expertise in research and development
Treehouse Consulting has the expertise to assist you with most aspects of commercial plantation research and development:
Tree breeding and improvement
- Experimental design
- Breeding and improvement strategy
- Quantitative genetic analysis using ASReml with innovative statistical methods
- Commercial deployment strategies
MAXIMISING Seed production
- We assist you to make the most of your seed production facilities
- Commercial scale seed production from open- and control-pollinated programs
- Crossing programs for next generation progeny testing
clonal deployment
- Evaluation and selection of elite clones
- Nursery production of clones
- Tissue culture production of clones
maximising yields through improved silviculture
- Design and evaluation of silviculture trials
- Development of fertilisation prescriptions
- Site-specific pruning and thinning schedules
- Improved plantation establishment
improvement of wood properties
- Design of non-destructive and destructive sampling protocols
- Arrangement of wood sample analysis
- Analysis and interpretation of results
Integrating commercial and academic research
- Identification of the complementarity between commercial and academic research goals
- Understanding how to interpret and implement academic results in a commercial context
- Assisting academic research proposals to obtain commercial support
Supply of genetically improved material
Treehouse Consulting can supply improved material of eucalyptus species and teak. See our germplasm sales page or contact us to ask about your specific requirements.