Germinant size of jack pine in relation to seed size and geographic origin

C.W. Yeatman

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Germinant size of jack pine in relation to seed size and geographic origin

Informally Refereed

Authors:

C.W. Yeatman

Year:

1966

Type:

Research Paper

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: Joint Proceedings of the Second Genetics Workshop of the Society of American Foresters and the Seventh Lake States Forest Tree Improvement Conference; Res. Pap. NC-6. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station. 28-36

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Abstract

The initial size of conifer seedlings is closely related to seed size (Hadders 1963), and seed size is a maternal characteristic that is highly subject to environmental modification (Mergen et al. 1964; Righter 1945). The effect of seed weight must be accounted for in critical studies of seedlings which attempt to attribute differences in growth to specific genetic or environmental causes (Duffield 1960; Mitchell 1934, 1939).

Parent Publication

Joint proceedings, Second Genetics Workshop of the Society of American Foresters and Seventh Lake States Forest Tree Improvement Conference, October 21-23, 1965.

Citation

Yeatman, C.W. 1966. Germinant size of jack pine in relation to seed size and geographic origin. In: Joint Proceedings of the Second Genetics Workshop of the Society of American Foresters and the Seventh Lake States Forest Tree Improvement Conference; Res. Pap. NC-6. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station. 28-36