Fresh from the oven

As a good cowboy—or is it stockman in Australia?— Laurie Schimleck rounded up a few of us to put together a review article on wood durability. Due to various circumstances, it took a bit longer than expected but finally came out! We just received a free reading author link to share “Heartwood Durability: The Quest for Natural Decay Resistance in a Changing Resource” in Current Forestry Reports (2026) 12:15 (full article link).

Wood durability (from a breeding point of view) picked my attention since around 2008, when we started work with the New Zealand Dryland Forests Initiative (NZDFI). Durable eucalypts are fantastic creatures, with their own trade-offs and complications, lots of Near Infrared Spectroscopy with students and colleagues, and a few published articles and some in preparation.

Thanks to Lauri for pushing us along.