Notes: Viability and Vigor of Slash and Shortleaf Pine Seeds After 50 Years of Storage

Author: Barnett James P.   Vozzo J. A.  

Publisher: Society of American Foresters

ISSN: 0015-749X

Source: Forest Science, Vol.31, Iss.2, 1985-06, pp. : 316-320

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Abstract

Viability of slash and shortleaf pine seeds was 66 and 25 percent, respectively, after 50 years of cold storage. Evaluations of leachate conductance, chromosomal aberrations, and seedling development indicated some loss of vigor over the storage period, but probably not enough to affect adversely the genetic makeup of the next generation. Forest Sci. 31:316-320.