Conifer Translational Genomics Network (CTGN) team members are pleased to announce the roll-out (publication) of a suite of new on-line teaching modules that cover topics from introductory genetics and genomics to applied use of genomics tools in tree breeding and ecosystem management (association genetics, genomic selection, landscape genomics). CTGN is an Integrated Coordinated Agricultural Project with the goal of bringing marker-informed breeding (MIB) to application for tree-breeding cooperatives that provide over 1.3 billion seedlings annually in the United States.

TIP Contact Meeting is to be held November 9-10, 2011 at the Holiday Inn Macon North. Beginning at 8 am on Wednesday November 9, we will have a 1/2-day indoor session, and the remainder of the day will be a field tour of the Arrowhead Breeding Center near Cochran, GA with an evening social/dinner. Thursday will be an all indoor session from 8am to 3pm. A more detailed agenda will be sent closer to the meeting date.

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On April 15th, NCSU hosted an Earth Day awareness event on the brickyard, and the theme this year was "A Billion Acts of Green".  In the South, we've been doing this for years! For decades, well over a billion seedlings from our loblolly pine breeding efforts have been planted each year in the South.