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Have trees for building/paper/etc. seen much artificial selection to produce faster growing variants to reduce deforestation?

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Have trees for building/paper/etc. seen much artificial selection to produce faster growing variants to reduce deforestation?

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Ask Science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 days ago

It seems a little odd that other crops have been cultivated to literally suit people’s tastes and interests, yet many trees…Seemingly not as much?

I recognize the growth cycles are much longer, in some(many?) cases far exceeding individual human lives, but whole civilizations have been relying on trees for ages. Have none, not even isolated parts of them, been stable enough to take on this experiment?

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It is preferable, but as demand increases, natural forest is being felled in favor of tree farms.

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