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Sharon Pond
Tissue Culture Research Biologist
Atlantic Forestry Centre
1350 Regent Street, P.O. Box 4000
Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 5P7
Tel.: (506) 452-3682

Profile

  • Joined the Canadian Forest Service in 1976

Areas of Knowledge:

  • Tissue culture of hardwoods and conifers
  • Effect of desiccation on storage and germination of somatic embryos
  • Cryopreservation of embryogenic tissue

Current Research Projects

  • Develop somatic embryogenesis protocols for germplasm conservation and mass propagation of disease free and/or disease resistant (when developed) endangered hardwoods Beech and Butternut, potential non-timber forest product species
  • Develop a reliable method of testing the trees for disease resistance and mass producing true-to-type trees with enhanced disease resistance
  • Develop a tissue culture protocol to propagate elite cultivars of Canada yew (_Taxus canadensis_), a non-timber forest product specie

Education

  • B.Sc. Hon. Biology (1973), University of New Brunswick
  • M.Sc. in Biology (1978), University of New Brunswick
  • Ph.D. in Forest Biology (1999), University of Victoria

Publications