FROM FLOWERING TO ARTIFICIAL POLLINATION IN LARCH FOR BREEDING AND SEED ORCHARD PRODUCTION

Authors
BONNETMASIMBERT M BALDET P PAQUES LE PHILIPPE G
Citation
M. Bonnetmasimbert et al., FROM FLOWERING TO ARTIFICIAL POLLINATION IN LARCH FOR BREEDING AND SEED ORCHARD PRODUCTION, Forestry Chronicle, 74(2), 1998, pp. 195-202
Citations number
34
Categorie Soggetti
Forestry
Journal title
Forestry Chronicle → ACNP
ISSN journal
00157546
Volume
74
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
195 - 202
Database
ISI
SICI code
0015-7546(1998)74:2<195:FFTAPI>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
In larches, breeding and production of improved seeds in seed orchards are difficult because of the particular reproductive biology of these species. This paper presents original technological developments, par ticularly from CEMAGREF and INRA in France, in the field of flowering induction, mechanized pollen harvesting, controlled crosses for breedi ng and supplemental mass pollination in seed orchards. Problems relate d to pollen drying and testing are also discussed briefly.