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Breaking seed dormancy in oil rose (Rosa dama­scena Mill.) by miocrobial inoculation
Breaking The Size Barrier In Containerization--"Washed" Eucalyptus Seedlings
Root washing is the key operation in a containerization system to produce seedlings with rooting volumes larger than we could afford to handle as bulky plugs. ...
George Meskimen
Breeding and Nursery Propagation of Cottonwood and Hybrid Poplars for
Intensively cultured poplar plantations are well known in the Southern and Northwestern United States where they have made significant contributions to ...
Donald E. Riemenschneider
Breeding and Selection of Fast-Growth Hardwood Species in the South
Efforts in fast-growth hardwood species in the South reached its height from the early 1960’s to the end of the 1980’s. In particular the U.S. Forest Service ...
Randall J. Rousseau
Breeding and Testing Pitch x Loblolly Pine Hybrids for the Northeast
In 1964 the Northeastern Forest Experiment Station and Westvaco- - with the cooperation then and later of many organizations and individuals- - selected ...
I. F. Trew and S. Little
Breeding Better Urban Trees-Problems, Practices and Potential
Importation of species or cultivars native to foreign countries has been, and will continue to be, an integral part of landscape-tree improvement in the ...
Frank S. Santamour
Breeding Blight Resistant American Chestnut
The objective of the breeding program of The American Chestnut Foundation is to utilize the blight resistance of Chinese chestnut in a backcross program to ...
Albert Ellingboe
Breeding for Disease and Insect Resistance in Hardwoods
Pest resistance often is the major consideration in tree breeding and, always must be taken into account. Although little breeding for pest resistance in ...
E. Richard Toole
Breeding for High-Quality Wood
I think one of our major objectives should be the development of trees that will produce more of the kinds of wood desired by the major users of forest ...
Harold L. Mitchell
Breeding for Resistance to Chestnut Blight at the University of Tennessee
The role played by E. parasitica in initiating the decline of C. dentata and subsequent successional patterns is that of a pathogen. There is still ...
Eyvind Thor and Safiya Samman
Breeding for Weevil Resistance in Norway Spruce: Balancing Attack, Growth and Wood Quality Using Multi-trait Genomic Selection
Increasing pressure of pest and disease on forest plantations is becoming a growing issue in the context of climate change. Breeding approaches using genomics ...
Patrick R.N. Lenz, Simon Nadeau, Marie-Josée Mottet, Martin Perron, Nathalie Isabel, Jean Beaulieu and Jean Bousquet
Breeding Methods in Tree Improvement
The two previous papers have presented a very thorough account of current information on heritabilities for wood and morphological characteristics. A ...
Franklin C. Cech
Breeding of American Chestnut
The low level of variation in blight resistance among native American chestnut trees has discouraged tree breeders from working with intraspecific ...
Eyvind Thor
Breeding Of Hardwoods
The fundamental principles of heredity apply equally well to both hardwoods and softwoods. Yet the hardwood and softwood breeding programs have been very ...
Jonathan W. Wright
Breeding Pest-Resistant Forest Trees: Developments and Trends
A decade ago breeding for resistance was considered only a promising means of reducing losses to forest insects and diseases. Convincing examples have since ...
Ronald J. Dinus
Breeding Strategy
The development of breeding strategy is of paramount importance before breeding is begun in any given species. The purpose of improvement, degree and pattern ...
M. A. K. Khalil
Breeding Strategy for E.Robusta in Southern Florida
Eucalyptus robusta Sm. has undergone two cycles of improvement in southern Florida. In the first cycle, mass selection produced the following realized gains ...
E. Carlyle Franklin, G. Meskimen and William S. Dvorak
Breeding Strategy for the First-Generation of Pinus taeda in the Northeast Region of Argentina
A strategy for the Genetic Tree Improvement Cooperative of the northeast region of Argentina was developed to start with a broad genetic base to ensure ...
Mirta N. Baez and Timothy L. White
Breeding Techniques for White Oak
Because it is a major species on vast acreages in the Eastern UnitedStates, many organizations are considering improvement programs for white oak (Quercus alba ...
Fred Thomas Ledig, James W. Beland, IV and John H. Fryer
Breeding Timber Chestnuts for Blight Resistance
The Division of Forest Pathology, U.S.D.A. has been breed -ing chestnuts for blight resistance since 1909.The Brooklyn Botanic Garden began breeding ...
A. H. Graves, Frederick H. Berry, G. F. Gravatt, H. Nienstaedt and Jesse D. Diller
Breeding Tropical Australian Acacias
Invited Presentations
A. C. Matheson and C. E. Harwood
Breeding without Breeding: Confirmation of Theoretical Concept Using Real-World Tree Improvement Program
In traditional tree improvement programs, simple recurrent selection scheme has been adopted to capturing additive genetic variance through repeated cycles of ...
Jiří Korecký, Ivana Tomášková and Milan Lstibůrek
Breeding Without Breeding: Scientific Journey to Real-Life Applications
Milan Lstiburek and Gary R. Hodge
© Brewing compost tea at North Creek Nurseries
Brief exposure to boiling water combined with cold-moist stratification enhances seed germination of New Jersey tea
A Brief History of Diplodia sapinea on Red Pine in Minnesota’s State Forest Nurseries
Diplodia sapinea is a common fungal pathogen that has caused sporadic issues on red pine seedlings in Minnesota nurseries since the mid-1970s. Despite ...
Michael S. Parisio
A Brief History of Forests and Tree Planting in Arkansas
Don C. Bragg
© A brief history of native plants
A Brief History of Reforestation and Restoration in Louisiana
Louisiana is rich in culture, politics, and ecosystem diversity, all of which have affected forested timber lands and their use over time. Landscape ...
Randy Rentz
A Brief History of Some Shortleaf Pine Progeny Tests in the Ouachita and Ozark National Forests
The considerable economic value and recent rapid and range-wide decline of shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata) have increased interest in this species for tree ...
Shaik M. Hossain, Don C. Bragg, Virginia L. McDaniel and Barbara Crane