Female-Strobilus Production in a Slash Pine Seed Orchard Following Branch Pruning


The utility of pruning to control the size and shape of seed orchard trees has been studied at our laboratory for a number of years. Our first experiment involved nonclonal material, and was not very informative because of the extreme variation in response among trees. More recently,one of our group began a pruning experiment in a slash pine clonal orchard. Female-strobilus production was studied during the first year following pruning; the results are reported here.
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Publication 10th Southern Forest Tree Improvement Conference Proceedings
Event Houston, TX - 1969
Author R.J. Varnell
Published 1969/06/19
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