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Chapter 11
Species Without Current Breeding
Relevance But High Economic Value:
Acacia caven, Acacia aroma, Acacia visco,
Prosopis affinis, Prosopis caldenia
and Gonopterodendron sarmientoi
Carolina Pometti, Gonzalo A. Camps, María Cristina Soldati,
Teresa Velasco Sastre, Gregorio Gavier, Noga Zelener, Aníbal Verga,
Mauricio Ewens, Beatriz O. Saidman, Alicia N. Sérsic, and Andrea Cosacov
11.1 Botanical, Ecological and Usage Features
All the species included in this chapter have been utilized directly from the natural
forest since the time of European pre-colonization. The cultural multipurpose use
that the original inhabitants of the region had done turned to an industrial exploitation when the Spaniards settled and imposed. Since then, the hard wood of all these
species has been utilized for rural carpentry, poles, charcoal and firewood. Although
their wood plays a relevant role in the local economy, the official statistics does not
reflect it properly, since most of their commerce is informal.
The genus Acacia (Fabaceae) includes over 1450 species distributed in tropical
and subtropical regions of the Americas, Australia, Africa and southern Asia (Guinet
C. Pometti (*) · B. O. Saidman
Laboratorio de Genética en Especies Leñosas, Departamento de Ecología, Genética y
Evolución (DEGE), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires.,
Buenos Aires, Argentina
e-mail: cpometti@ege.fcen.uba.ar
G. A. Camps
Instituto de Fisiología y Recursos Genéticos Vegetales, Unidad de Estudios Agropecuarios
(IFRGV, UDEA) INTA-CONICET, Córdoba, Argentina
Laboratorio de Ecología Evolutiva-Biología Floral, IMBIV (UNC-CONICET), Córdoba,
Argentina
M. C. Soldati · G. Gavier
Instituto de Recursos Biológicos (IRB), Centro de Investigaciones de Recursos Naturales
(CIRN), INTA. Hurlingham, Buenos Aires, Argentina
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
M. J. Pastorino, P. Marchelli (eds.), Low Intensity Breeding of Native Forest
Trees in Argentina, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56462-9_11
Chapter 11
Species Without Current Breeding
Relevance But High Economic Value:
Acacia caven, Acacia aroma, Acacia visco,
Prosopis affinis, Prosopis caldenia
and Gonopterodendron sarmientoi
Carolina Pometti, Gonzalo A. Camps, María Cristina Soldati,
Teresa Velasco Sastre, Gregorio Gavier, Noga Zelener, Aníbal Verga,
Mauricio Ewens, Beatriz O. Saidman, Alicia N. Sérsic, and Andrea Cosacov
11.1 Botanical, Ecological and Usage Features
All the species included in this chapter have been utilized directly from the natural
forest since the time of European pre-colonization. The cultural multipurpose use
that the original inhabitants of the region had done turned to an industrial exploitation when the Spaniards settled and imposed. Since then, the hard wood of all these
species has been utilized for rural carpentry, poles, charcoal and firewood. Although
their wood plays a relevant role in the local economy, the official statistics does not
reflect it properly, since most of their commerce is informal.
The genus Acacia (Fabaceae) includes over 1450 species distributed in tropical
and subtropical regions of the Americas, Australia, Africa and southern Asia (Guinet
C. Pometti (*) · B. O. Saidman
Laboratorio de Genética en Especies Leñosas, Departamento de Ecología, Genética y
Evolución (DEGE), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires.,
Buenos Aires, Argentina
e-mail: cpometti@ege.fcen.uba.ar
G. A. Camps
Instituto de Fisiología y Recursos Genéticos Vegetales, Unidad de Estudios Agropecuarios
(IFRGV, UDEA) INTA-CONICET, Córdoba, Argentina
Laboratorio de Ecología Evolutiva-Biología Floral, IMBIV (UNC-CONICET), Córdoba,
Argentina
M. C. Soldati · G. Gavier
Instituto de Recursos Biológicos (IRB), Centro de Investigaciones de Recursos Naturales
(CIRN), INTA. Hurlingham, Buenos Aires, Argentina