JB Jett
Assoc. Dean Emeritus
Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources
Biltmore Hall (Robertson Wing) 1015
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)
- 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)
- Rootstock effects on scion growth and reproduction in 8-year-old grafted loblolly pine (1997)
- Date of earlywood latewood transition in provenances and families of loblolly pine, and its relationship to growth phenology and juvenile wood specific gravity (1997)