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Teak (Tectona grandis. Linn. f.) is an important timber species preferred all over the world because of its versatile range of uses (Katwal, 2005). Its matchless timber properties include strength, workability, attractiveness, lightness, resistance to termite, fungus and weather, as well as seasoning capacity without splitting or cracking. Teak occurs in natural forests between 9° to 26° N latitude and 73° to 104° E longitude, which includes southern and central India, Myanmar, Laos People's Democratic Republic and northern Thailand (White, 1991). The species is a dominant component of diverse forest types. For instance in India, teak forests are spread over a large geographic area of 8.9 million ha which range from verydry to very-moist types. As a consequence, natural populations exhibit great genetic variability for economically important traits (Katwal, 2005). In fact the Indian subcontinent is considered the center of diversity for teak because of the huge genetic variation for economically important traits such as bole form, timber quality, biochemical traits and others (Anmol Kumar et al., 1997). Further teak is emerging as one of the predominant plantation species in the Indian subcontinent as well as in 30 other countries of tropical Asia, Africa and Latin America. Though teak plantations account for 5-8 per cent of the total forest area in the tropics (Ball et al. 1999), about 90 per cent of the quality hardwood plantations for timber production belongs to only teak (Granger, 1998). As per 1990 data, globally, area under teak plantations was 2.2 million ha, with 94 per cent in Tropical Asia, especially in India and Indonesia, followed by Tropical Africa (about 4.5 %) and remaining area in Tropical America (FAO, 1995). Presently about 1.5 million ha of teak plantations exist in India and around 50,000 ha are raised annually (Subramanian et al., 2000). This has resulted in a huge demand for quality planting stocks in astronomical quantities.