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Pollen Management in Southern Seed Orchards

Many of our southern seed orchards have been plagued in recent years by poor cone crops and disappointingly low yields of viable seeds. Greatly increased emphasis on pollen management in the orchards may offer solutions to seed yield and quality problems, and also provide increased genetic gains through increased selection differentials on the paternal side of the pedigree. The degree of sophistication in pollen management can vary from complete control with artificial pollination, to nothing more than an unimproved isolation zone around the orchard.


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Author(s): E. Carlyle Franklin

Publication: Tree Improvement and Genetics - Southern Forest Tree Improvement Conference - 1971