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Priming Treatments to Improve Pine Seed Vigor

Osmotic priming improved both final germination and rapidity of germination in loblolly pine and showed a detrimental effect or no effect on slash pine seeds. The beneficial effects of priming were lowest for stratified seeds and greatest at a low germination temperature.


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Author(s): S. W. Hallgren

Publication: National Nursery Proceedings - 1987

Event: Intermountain Forest Nursery Association
1987 - Oklahoma City, OK