Populus nigra network : progress of country activities : France
Résumé
A national programme for Populus nigra conservation has been recently approved by the National Technical Commission for Forest Genetic Resources Conservation (Ministry of Agriculture). This is the general framework including objectives and practical considerations. At the national scale in France (which is situated in the marginal part of the species' distribution range), the conservation of P. nigra has two objectives : · to maintain the various genepools that founded today's diversity · to maintain the particular local adaptations.