This study was carried out at the forest nursery of Department of Forestry, Faculty of Agriculture and Regional Research Station, Wadura SKUAST-K, Sopore, Kashmir during 2006 and 2007 to examine the role of live biofertilizers in litter decomposition and nutrient release in Salix fragilis under natural Salix stands. The experiment was laid in completely randomised design with three replications...

Seedling species with different architectures, e.g., mean leaf angles, are often subjected to the same irrigation management in forest nurseries, resulting wasted water and fertilizer reduced seedling quality. We aimed evaluate whether volumes applied tree angles affect physiological quality nurseries and, consequently, performance after potting. submitted nine four daily regimes (8, 10, 12, 14...

a wide range of haemoglobin, extending from 6*8 g/100 ml to 15*6 g/100 ml. The mean Hb was 12-3 g/100 ml, with only minor variations for age, sex, and season. A significant increase in the Hb followed iron administration if the initial Hb was less than 10-5 g/100 ml, but there was no rise in the mean value if the initial level exceeded 12-5 g/100 ml. Taking 10-5 g/100 ml as the level below whic...

In the upcoming years, challenge of exponential growth in tree planting activities matching climate crisis, which requires use targeted and adapted plant material, calls for creating an updated framework Italian forest nursery sector, both basic materials (BM) reproductive (FRM). The present paper aims at highlighting pros cons public system and, same time, characterizing current organization p...

During an unusual cold-water event in January 2010, reefs along the Florida Reef Tract suffered extensive coral mortality, especially in shallow reef habitats in close proximity to shore and with connections to coastal bays. The threatened staghorn coral, Acropora cervicornis, is the focus of propagation and restoration activities in Florida and one of the species that exhibited high susceptibi...

Landis, T.D.; South, D.B., tech. coords. 1997. National proceedings: Forest and Conservation Nursery Associations—1996. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-389. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 282 p. This proceedings is a compilation of 51 papers that were presented at the regional meetings of the forest and conservation nursery associations...

A recent shift in the pattern of commercial harvest in the Keppel Island region of the southern inshore Great Barrier Reef raises concern about the depletion of a number of relatively rare restricted range taxa. The shift appears to be driven by demand from the United States (US) for corals for domestic aquaria. Data from the annual status reports from the Queensland Coral Fishery were compared...

Two apparently unlinked events marked the beginning of one of the most devastating forest diseases known to man in recent times: Sudden Oak Death (SOD). In the mid 1990s, while a novel species of Phytophthora was being isolated from mildly diseased Rhododendron and Viburnum plants in German and Belgian nurseries, the first reports of inexplicable death of tanoaks (Notholithocarpus densiflorus) ...

One hundred and seventeen children and 41 teachers in day nurseries were screened for cytomegalovirus (CMV) viruria over a period of one year. Thirty two (27%) children and two (5%) teachers were found to be excreting virus on at least one occasion. Restriction endonuclease typing showed that virus strains isolated from the children were dissimilar, with the exception of those from sibling pair...