Area(s) of Expertise

Forest Genetics; Soil Science

Education

B.S. University of Tennessee (1966)
M.S. University of Tennessee (1968)
Ph.D. North Carolina State University (1983)

Research Interests

Forest tree improvement and genetics; seed orchard management including flowering, soils, and turf management; wood properties; Christmas tree genetics and variation.

Publications

• Effects of inbreeding on growth and quality traits in loblolly pine (2015)
• Seed orchard management strategies for deployment of intensively selected loblolly pine families in the southern US (2008)
• Economic development outlook (2006)
• Grafting loblolly pine (2000)
• Grafting loblolly pine (1998)
• Phenological variation in height and diameter growth in provenances and families of loblolly pine (1998)
• Date of earlywood latewood transition in provenances and families of loblolly pine, and its relationship to growth phenology and juvenile wood specific gravity (1997)
• Rootstock effects on scion growth and reproduction in 8-year-old grafted loblolly pine (1997)
• Timing of nitrogen applications in a loblolly pine seed orchard (1997)
• Wood density assessment of diverse families of loblolly pine using x-ray densitometry (1997)

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