Keynote speakers
Shelagh McCartan; Bad seed is robbery of a worse kind ...
Dr. Shelagh McCartan
Seed Scientist
Forestry Commission
United Kingdom
Title: Bad seed is robbery of a worse kind ...
Shelagh is a Seed Scientist and Work Area Leader for Plant Production at Forest Research in Great Britain. She co-ordinates a programme of applied research with two focus areas:
- upgrading, testing, stratifying and storing tree seeds to improve the cost-effectiveness and efficiency of plant production, and
- modelling thermal time to predict the impact of climate change on dormancy-germination cycles of tree seeds.
