Wounding of aspen roots promotes suckering

Canadian Journal of Botany

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 310-315

  Fraser, Erin C ^a   Lieffers, Victor J ^a   Landhäusser, Simon M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Regeneration; Root injury; Root sucker; Trembling aspen

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; GROWTH KINETICS;

ASPEN ROOTS; SUCKERING;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

DAMAGE; REGENERATION; ROOT; TREE; WOUNDING;

CATOSTOMIDAE; POPULUS; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 2942719019     PISSN: 00084026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/b04-009     Document Type: Article

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