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Lateral Root Development- Seedling Quality- Field Performance

In the past two years, two more nursery manuals have been published to tell us in great detail how to grow and evaluate seedlings. In a large measure, they fail to do so. In these few pages I cannot do any better than those manuals could in a combined total of 500 pages (Duryea and Landis 1984, Duryea 1985). The reason for failure is simple. While many can tell you how to grow big seedlings, no one can tell you what their field performance will be. For the past 50 years, researchers have been trying to relate performance after outplanting to attributes of a nursery seedling (Duryea 1985). In spite of all this effort, the Southern Industrial Forestry Research Council (1984) pointed out that clarification of factors relating to seedling survival and early recognition of superior individuals were the keys to increased fiber production and success in both the genetics and regeneration programs in the South.


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Author(s): Paul P. Kormanik

Event: Northeastern Area Nurserymen's Conference
1986 - State College, Pennsylvania