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Chapter 5. Outplanting
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Nursery plants are in a period of high risk from when they leave the protected environment of the nursery to when they are outplanted. It is important to ...
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Chapter 5: Dormancy and Germination
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The seed phase is the most important stage in the life cycle of higher plants as regards survival; dormancy and germination are natural mechanisms to ensure ...Ben S. P. Wang, Heriel P. Msanga and Michael T. Smith
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Chapter 5: Establishing a Vigorous Nursery Crop - Bed Preparation, Seed Sowing, and Early Seedling Growth
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Many aspects of preparing a production nursery bed, such as correcting drainage problems, eliminating disease potential, and maintaining fertility and pH, are ...Barbara E. Thompson
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Chapter 5: Growing Media
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Selecting the proper growing medium is one of the most important considerations in nursery plant production. A growing medium can be defined as a substance ...Douglass F. Jacobs, Thomas D. Landis and Tara Luna
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Chapter 6 - Bareroot Seedling Culture
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The attributes of the ideal seedling (ideotype) depend on whether the regeneration forester is concerned with short-term or long-term reforestation goals. ...John G. Mexal and David B. South
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Chapter 6 - Certification of Tree Seeds and Other Woody Plant Materials
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Seed certification is a system that provides assurance to buyers that the seeds being purchased are what they are represented to be by the producer or ...
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Chapter 6 - Outplanting
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Outplanting is the final stage of the nursery process, but before we get to specific techniques, we should review some important concepts. Outplanting ...
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Chapter 6 - Racial Variation - Trees Planted
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This chapter is devoted to a discussion of traits and genotypic variation in trees grown in study plots at a few geographic locations. The seed for these ...
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Chapter 6: Containers
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The choice of container is one of the most important considerations in developing a new nursery or growing a new species. Not only does the container control ...Tara Luna, Thomas D. Landis and R. Kasten Dumroese
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Chapter 6: Pathology
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Seeds and seedlings are frequently affected by physical and physiological disorders and the diseases caused by fungi, bacteria, and viruses. Young plants or ...K. Old, R. K. Mittal, S. B. Mathur and Z. Q. Yuan
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Chapter 6: Physical Properties of Forest-Nursery Soils - Relation to Seedling Growth
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The physical properties desirable in forest-nursery soils are those that provide the optimum environment for root growth and function. Because these properties ...B. P. Warkentin
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Chapter 7 - Container Seedlings
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Container southern pine seedlings offer an alternative to bareroot stock, especially when short production times are required, the planting season is to be ...John C. Brissette, James P. Barnett and Thomas D. Landis
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Chapter 7 - Nursery Practices
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Plant propagation is both a science and an art. In this chapter, we examine the science of plant propagation, which consists of a knowledge of plant ...
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Chapter 7 - Stand Variation
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Stand variation is the last chapter of the discussion of variation among geographic locations in southern pines. The first chapters included material on ...
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Chapter 7: Collecting, Processing, and Storing Seeds
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Nurseries that work to strengthen and expand the presence of native species are concerned about fostering diverse populations that are strong and ...Tara Luna and Kim M. Wilkinson
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Chapter 7: Ecological Life Histories
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Our review of the literature uncovered two complementary lines of life-history research in tropical forests. One approach is demographic, with a strict focus ...Ariel E. Lugo and Jess K. Zimmerman
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Chapter 7: Soil Fertility in Forest Nurseries
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The soil cation-exchange complex serves as a reservoir of nutrients which are released into the soil solution, where they are accessible to seedlings. Although ...R. van den Driessche
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Chapter 8 - Loblolly Pine
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Monographs on loblolly pine have described the species in general and the effect of various environmental factors on natural regeneration, ...
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Chapter 8 - Seedling Quality of Southern Pines
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Seedling quality is related to a seedling's ability to survive prolonged environmental stresses and produce vigorous growth following outplanting. This ...Jon D. Johnson and Michael L. Cline
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Chapter 8: Ethnobotany
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American botanist J. W. Harshberger first defined the term “ethnobotany” in 1896 as “the studies of plants used by primitive and aboriginal people” (Balick ...Ana Lucrecia E. de Macvean and Elfriede Poll
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Chapter 8: Seed Germination and Sowing Options
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Seeds of many native species are challenging to germinate. One important thing a grower can do is learn as much as possible about the life history, ...Tara Luna, Kim M. Wilkinson and R. Kasten Dumroese
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Chapter 8: Soil and Tissue Analysis - Tools for Maintaining Soil Fertility
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Systematic monitoring through soil and plant analysis is essential for understanding and managing soil systems in forest nurseries. Analysis services are ...C. T. Youngberg
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Chapter 9 - Characterizing the Site - Environment, Associated Vegetation, and Site Potential
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"Site," in the context of this manual, can be defined as the totality of environmental factors - physical, chemical, and biological - influencing the ...Henry L. Gholz and Lindsay R. Boring
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Chapter 9 - Longleaf Pine
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The natural range of longleaf pine lies within that ofloblolly and shortleaf pines but extends north and west of that of slash pine, as shown in the ...
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Chapter 9: Notes on Tropical Dendrology
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Dendrology, then, is a division of forestry or botany that treats of the taxonomy of trees and other woody plants, including nomenclature, classification, ...Elbert L. Little, Jr.
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Chapter 9: Nursery Soil Organic Matter - Management and Importance
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Organic matter is important in nursery management because of its favorable effects on the physical, chemical, and biological properties of the soil. Organic ...Charles B. Davey
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Chapter 9: Vegetative Propagation
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For the past 30 years, interest in the propagation of native plants has been growing. Many desirable and ecologically important species, however, are ...Tara Luna
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Characteristics of Eastern Spruce Gall Aphid Attack Among 24 White Spruce Seed Sources in Central Maine
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Eastern spruce gall aphid attack on 24 range-wide white spruce seed sources growing in central Maine was investigated at the beginning of their sixteenth ...David S. Canavera and James Digennaro
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Characteristics Of Seedling With High Survival Potential
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To survive, (1) species and seed source must be adapted to the site, (2) the seedlings must be in the proper physiological state to meet the new environment, ...Richard W. Tinus
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Characterization and Genetic Control of Cinnamyl Alcohol Dehydrogenase in Loblolly Pine
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Cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase (CAD) is the enzyme which catalyzes the final step of the biochemical pathway which produces coniferyl alcohol, the monomeric ...B. Sandozky-Dawes, David M. O'Malley, Ronald R. Sederoff and T. Presnell
