Pacific Southwest Research Station

Pacific Southwest Research Station
800 Buchanan Street
West Annex Building
Albany, CA 94710-0011

(510) 559-6300

Annual Reports

• FY98 (PDF 636 KB)
• FY99 (PDF 274 KB)
• FY00 (PDF 573 KB)
• FY01 (PDF 1.2 MB)
• FY02 (PDF 1.0 MB)
• FY03 (PDF 3.3 MB)
• FY04 (PDF 4.6 MB)
• FY05 (PDF 10.6 MB)

Project History

• Genetic Diversity | Identification | Taxonomy

Project Submission

• NFGEL Project Submission Form (PDF 18 KB)
• NFGEL Project Submission Form (WRD 42 KB)

Collection Guidelines

• Collection Guidelines-Vegetative
  Tissue(PDF 18 KB)
• Collection Guidelines - Seed (PDF 17 KB)
• Collection Packing List (PDF 18 KB)

Protocols

• Standard Operating Procedures for Starch Gel Electrophoresis, June 2003. PDF, 679 KB
• NFGEL Health and Safety Plan, November 2005. PDF, 751 KB

Publications

• Wilson, B.L., Hipkins, V.D., Rey-Vizgirdas, E. and Kaye, T.N.. 2005. Variation in Lewisia kelloggii (Portulacaceae) with description of a new species endemic to Idaho. Western North American Naturalist 65(3):345-358.
• Schmidtling, R.C. and Hipkins, V.D.. 2004. The after-effects of reproductive environment in shortleaf pine. Forestry 77(4):287-295.
• Hipkins, V.D. and Kitzmiller, J.H.. 2004. Genetic variation and clonal distribution of quaking aspen in the central Sierra Nevada. Transactions of the Western Section of the Wildlife Society 40:32-44.
• Hipkins, V.D., Wilson, B.L., Harrod, R.J. and Aubry C.. 2003. Isozyme variation in showy stickseed, a Washington Endemic Plant, and relatives. Northwest Science, 77:170-177.
• Chen, Z., Kolb, T.E., Clancy, K.M., Hipkins, V.D. and DeWald L.E.. 2001. Allozyme variation in interior Douglas-fir: association with growth and resistance to western spruce budworm herbivory. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 31(10):1691-1700.
• Wilson, B.L., Kitzmiller, J., Rolle, W. and Hipkins, V.D.. 2001. Isozyme variation and its environmental correlates in Elymus glaucus from the California Floristic Province. Canadian Journal of Botany 79:139-153.
• Samman, S., Wilson, B.L. and Hipkins V.D.. 2001. Genetic variation in Pinus ponderosa, Purshia tridentata, and Festuca idahoensis, community-dominant plants of California's yellow pine forest. Madrono 47(3):164-173.
• Wilson, B.L., Doede, D.L. and Hipkins V.D.. 2000. Isozyme variation in Sisyrinchium sarmentosum (Iridaceae). Northwest Science 74(4):346-354.
• Schmidtling, R.C., Hipkins, V.D. and Carroll, E.. 2000. Pleistocene refugia for longleaf and loblolly pines. Journal of Sustainable Forestry 10(3/4):349-354.
• Schmidtling, R.C., Carroll, E. and LaFarge, T.. 1999. Allozyme diversity of selected and natural loblolly pine populations. Silvae Genetica 48:35-45.
• Schmidtling, R.C. and Hipkins V.D.. 1998. Genetic diversity in longleaf pine (Pinus palustris): influence of historical and prehistorical events. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 28(8):1135-1145.
• Adams, W.T., Hipkins, V.D., Burczyk, J. and Randall W.K.. 1997. Pollen contamination trends in a maturing Douglas-fir seed orchard. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 27:131-134.
• Foster, M., Carroll, E. and Hipkins, V.D.. 1997. Saw-toothed Lewisia: to be or not to be. Fremontia 25(1):15-19.
• Hipkins, V.D., Marshall, K., Neale, D.B., Rottmann, W. and Strauss, S.H.. 1995. A mutation hotspot in the chloroplast genome of a conifer (Douglas-fir: Pseudotsuga) is caused by variability in the number of direct repeats derived from a partially duplicated tRNA gene. Current Genetics 27:572-579.
• Hipkins, V.D. and Strauss, S.H.. 1995. Chloroplast genome evolution in conifers. In: Plant Genome and Plastome: Their Structure and Evolution, K. Tsunewaki (ed). Kodansha Scientific Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. pp 167-173.
• Hipkins, V.D., Krutovskii, K.V., and Strauss S.H.. 1994. Organelle genomes in conifers: structure, evolution, and diversity. Forest Genetics 1(4):179-189.
• Strauss, S.H., Hong, Y.-P. and Hipkins, V.D.. 1993. High levels of population differentiation for mitochondrial DNA haplotypes in Pinus radiata, muricata, and attenuata. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 85:605-611.
• Hong, Y.-P, Hipkins, V.D. and Strauss, S.H.. 1993. Chloroplast DNA diversity among trees, populations and species in the California closed-cone pines (Pinus radiata, Pinus muricata and Pinus attenuata). Genetics 135:1187-1196.
• Strauss, S.H., Bousquet, J., Hipkins, V.D. and Hong, Y.-P.. 1992. Biochemical and molecular genetic markers in biosystematic studies of forest trees. New Forests 6:125-158.
• Hipkins, V.D., Tsai, C.-H. and Strauss, S.H.. 1990. Sequence of the gene for the large subunit of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase from a gymnosperm, Douglas-fir. Plant Molec. Biol. 15:505-507.
• Zaerr, J.B., Hipkins, V.D. and Forry, K.. 1989. Evaluation of some markers of vigor in seedlings of Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco). Ann. Sci. Forest 46:246-249.

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