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Abstract of Effect of Methyl Bromide Fumigation on Germination of Southern Pine Seed

Seed entering the United States are inspected and usually fumigated with methyl bromide to prevent entry of insects into this country.4 Since there has been some indication that this fumigation adversely affects the seed a study was made at the Eastern Tree Seed Laboratory in cooperation with the Plant Quarantine Division, Agricultural Research Service, to determine the effects of methyl bromide fumigation on longleaf, slash, and loblolly pine seed germination. Seed of each species were fumigated by the Plant Quarantine Division at Washington, D.C. The seed had moisture contents of 5, 10, and 15 percent; fumigation levels of methyl bromide were 0, 0.5, 1.0, and 2.0 times that normally used to fumigate seed.


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Author(s): LeRoy Jones, John C. Barber, J. E. Mabry, Jr.

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 55 (1962)