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The South Establishes A Major Pine Geographic Seed Source Study

One tangible outcome of the January 1951 conference on Southern Forest Tree Improvement has been a South-wide cooperative study of geographic sources of southern pine seed. Prompt action by the cooperators enabled the Sub-Committee in charge to start this study with seed from the 1951 crop. This is a summary of the purpose and design of the study, and of its progress through December 1952.


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Author(s): Philip C. Wakeley

Publication: Tree Improvement and Genetics - Southern Forest Tree Improvement Conference - 1953