Effect of silvicultural treatments on growth, fertility and capsule traits in seedling seed orchards of Eucalyptus camaldulensis and E. tereticornis

New Forests

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 99-107

  Varghese, M ^a   Ravi, N ^a   Kamalakannan, R ^a   Harwood, C E ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF FOREST GENETICS AND TREE BREEDING   (India)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Eucalyptus; Fertility; Fertilizer; Paclobutrazol; Seed orchards; Seed production

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; APPLICATIONS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; FARMS; FERTILIZERS; GROWTH (MATERIALS); HARVESTING; LOCATION; ORCHARDS; PHOSPHORUS; POTASH; POTASSIUM; SEED; SODIUM; TRACE ANALYSIS; UREA; ZINC;

EUCALYPTUS; FERTILITY; PACLOBUTRAZOL; SEED ORCHARDS; SEED PRODUCTION;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

EVERGREEN TREE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GERMINATION; GROWTH RESPONSE; ORCHARD; SEED PRODUCTION; SILVICULTURE;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; KERALA; PUDUKKOTTAI; SOUTH ASIA; TAMIL NADU;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS CAMALDULENSIS; EUCALYPTUS TERETICORNIS;

EID: 57349152173     PISSN: 01694286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11056-008-9111-x     Document Type: Article

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