Premature shoot growth termination allows nutrient loading of seedlings with an indeterminate growth strategy

New Forests

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 635-647

  Schott, Kaitlin M ^a   Pinno, Bradley D ^b   Landhäusser, Simon M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NORTHERN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Growth limitation hypothesis; Nursery seedling quality; Nutrient and carbon reserves; Paclobutrazol; Populus tremuloides

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION RATES; FERTILIZATION RATES; GROWTH-LIMITATION HYPOTHESIS; PACLOBUTRAZOL; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; POTENTIAL TECHNIQUES; SEEDLING PRODUCTION; SEEDLING QUALITY;

CARBON; FERTILIZERS; FORESTRY; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

NUTRIENTS;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DECIDUOUS TREE; FERTILIZER; GROWING SEASON; NUTRIENT; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PACLOBUTRAZOL; SEEDLING; SHOOT GROWTH;

POPULUS; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 84884819565     PISSN: 01694286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11056-013-9373-9     Document Type: Article

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