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This is from Milton Kanashiro, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa), Brazil.

I am really sorry I could not enter into the Conference earlier. Working with tropical forests, focusing more on natural forest management, I do think genomics is very important tools when the level of domestication and selection is already highly developed. At this moment, molecular genetics is very important to access population diversity and the main priority is the basic and tedious job of correct species identification. In the Amazon forest, there are several commercial timber species with a very complex taxonomy puzzle to solve, which I take as the main challenge to discuss forest management and conservation, when dealing at the level of species population and its genetic diversity. Therefore, molecular tools are very important, but still there are very few and well instrumentalised laboratories in the region. 

Besides the logistic of the labs, the cost of the chemicals involved in the methodologies, and the access and logistics of the region to collect material of very low density species populations, where the great majority falls on the category of rare and very rare species, to generate information on molecular data for these species become a very expensive and tremendous effort and energy involved in it.

As a consequence, there are also very few people that are highly well trained and able to deal with these methodologies, considering the size of the region and the higly diversified amount of timber species that need basic genetic diversity information. 

Advanced tools and methodologies of all sorts, such as flow cytometry, near infrared spectometry, etc. would be very important to test besides the current molecular genetics applied at the moment, together with the traditional tedious and important work done by more tradition plant taxonomists, since most of the decision is primarily based on comparison of several morphological and molecular data information. 

Maybe these issues are out of range of this e-mail conference, however, I thought that I should post this as a contribution to get the species identification issue into the context of use and conservation of forest genetic resources in the Amazon tropical forest and maybe this becomes as matter of concerns of a great deal of people interested in forest use and conservation, and stronger effort could be directed in this direction at the international forum level.

Milton Kanashiro, PhD em Genética Florestal
Pesquisador Genética e Conservação de Recursos Florestais
Grupo de Manejo Florestal & Conservação
Embrapa Amazônia Oriental
Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa)
Trav. Enéas Pinheiro, s/nº MARCO, 66.095-903  Belém/PA  
Brazil
e-mail: milton.kanashiro (at) embrapa.br
Telefone: +55 (91) 3204-1121  |  Fax: +55 (91) 3276-9845  | 
Skype  milton.kanashiro  
www.cpatu.embrapa.br 

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