Hrvatski šumarski institut (HŠI) već više od 10 godina se bavi projektima očuvanja genofonda
zaštićenih i znamenitih stabala na području Republike Hrvatske (RH). Značaj ovakvih projekata prepoznat je od strane brojnih javnih ustanova, lokalne samouprave i udruga za zaštitu prirode koje žele sačuvati genetski materijal takvih stabala za sva vremena. Diljem RH nalaze se brojna znamenita stabla koja nose povijesnu, kulturnu i estetsku simboliku pojedinog kraja, a neka se nalaze i na popisu zaštićenih stabala. Djelatnici HŠI-a obavljaju stručne poslove vezane uz proizvodnju klonskog materijala koji obuhvaćaju: proizvodnju podloga (biljke na koje se cijepe plemke), sakupljanje plemki (grančice od matičnog stabla koje se klonira), vegetativno razmnožavanje (cijepljenje vegetativnog materijala na pripremljene podloge) u plasteniku te uzgoj, školovanje, njegu i zaštitu biljaka u rasadniku instituta. Navedeni postupci dovode do stvaranja genetski identičnih „novih stabala“ čime se omogućuje trajno zadržavanje starih, izvornih stabala na lokalitetima pojedinog kulturnog dobra.The Croatian Forest Research Institute (CFRI) has been involved in projects for the preservation of the gene pool of protected and significant trees in Croatia for more than 10 years. The importance of this projects has been recognized by numerous public institutions, local governments and nature conservation associations that want to preserve the genetic material of significant trees for future generations. In Croatia, there are numerous trees that have the historical, cultural and aesthetic value of a particular area, and some of them are on the list of protected trees. CFRI employees perform professional work related to the production of clonal material, which includes: root-stocks production (plants on which scions are grafted), scions collection (twigs from the mother tree), vegetative propagation (grafting of vegetative material on prepared root-stocks) in the greenhouse and the cultivation, schooling, care and protection of plants in the institute’s nursery. These procedures lead to the creation of genetically identical “new trees”, which allows the permanent retention of old, original trees in the localities of individual cultural assets
