Impacts of nursery cultural treatments on stress tolerance in 1 + 0 container white spruce (Picea glauca [Moench] Voss) seedlings for summer-planting

New Forests

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 93-107

  Tan, Weixing ^a  

^a Grande Prairie Regional College   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conditioning; Drought tolerance; Frost tolerance; Physiology; Short day

Indexed keywords

MORPHOLOGY; NITRATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEED;

DROUGHT TOLERANCE; FROST TOLERANCE; NURSERY; STOMATAL CLOSURE;

FORESTRY;

COLD TOLERANCE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; FINE ROOT; MORPHOLOGY; NURSERY GROUND; PHYSIOLOGY; SEEDLING; TREE PLANTING;

ANATOMY; FORESTRY; NITRATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEEDS;

PICEA; PICEA GLAUCA;

EID: 33845462428     PISSN: 01694286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11056-006-9016-5     Document Type: Article

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