Microcoppice: a new strategy for red oak clonal propagation

D.E. Harper; B.H. McCown

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Microcoppice: a new strategy for red oak clonal propagation

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Authors:

D.E. Harper, B.H. McCown

Year:

1991

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: McCormick, Larry H.; Gottschalk, Kurt W., eds. Proceedings, 8th Central Hardwood Forest Conference; 1991 March 4-6; University Park, PA. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-148. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station: 586.

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Abstract

The great demand for red oak (Quercus rubra L.) has forced plant propagators to consider viable methods of mass clonal propagation for the species. A process called 'microcoppicing' is presently being developed to help meet such needs.

Parent Publication

Proceedings, 8th Central Hardwood Forest Conference

Citation

Harper, D.E.; McCown, B.H. 1991. Microcoppice: a new strategy for red oak clonal propagation. In: McCormick, Larry H.; Gottschalk, Kurt W., eds. Proceedings, 8th Central Hardwood Forest Conference; 1991 March 4-6; University Park, PA. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-148. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station: 586.