Mass production of shortleaf x slash pine hybrids by pollinating unbagged female flowers

Philip C. Wakeley; O.O. Wells; T.E. Campbell

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Mass production of shortleaf x slash pine hybrids by pollinating unbagged female flowers

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Philip C. Wakeley, O.O. Wells, T.E. Campbell

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. 78-79

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Abstract

A simple method of mass-producing shortleaf x slash pine hybrids was attempted. Large quantities of slash pine pollen were spread on unbagged shortleaf flowers in the hope of recovering a high percentage of hybrid progeny and thus materially reducing the cost of producing such hybrids by conventional controlled pollination. The hybrid is very promising, but, as Snyder and Squillace (1965) have shown, seed yields from controlled pollinations have averaged only 8.5 sound seeds per cone.

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

Wakeley, Philip C.; Wells, O.O.; Campbell, T.E. 1966. Mass production of shortleaf x slash pine hybrids by pollinating unbagged female flowers. 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. 78-79