Documents from the outset the domestication of an economically important plant speciesCovering the two main planks of domestication, namely management inputs and genetic improvementThe plant species being a forest tree is an especially distinctive featureContrasts the obscurity of the species in nature with its economic importance as a domesticated organismComprehensive coverage of a classic case history in the development of modern commercial forestryCovers the interplay between the technical factors, political and technical institutions, and a range of other human factorsAddresses issues for the future in special depth weiterlesen