Southern pine stands have the potential to provide significant feedstocks for the growing biomass energy and biofuel markets. Although initial feedstocks likely will come from low-value small-diameter trees, understory vegetation, and slash, a sustainable and continuous supply of biomass is necessary to support and grow a wood bioenergy market. As long as solidwood products are more valuable, b...

—Simple sequence repeats (SSR) are highly informative DNA-based markers widely used in population genetic and linkage mapping studies. We have been developing PCR primer pairs for amplifying SSR markers for loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) using loblolly pine DNA and EST sequence data as starting materials. Fifty primer pairs known to reliably amplify polymorphic markers in loblolly pine were scr...

A total of 13 herbicide treatments (Table 1) were applied to recently established slash pine plantations in Alabama and Louisiana. Six treatments were applied early (M arch) and seven were applied late (M ay). All treatments were replicated four times, and four replications of an untreated check were also evaluated. Total spray volume was 10 gpa for all applications. Pine heights and groundline...

We used eddy covariance and biomass measurements to quantify the carbon (C) dynamics of a naturally regenerated longleaf pine/slash pine flatwoods ecosystem in north Florida for 4 years, July 2000 to June 2002 and 2004 to 2005, to quantify how forest type, silvicultural intensity and environment influence stand-level C balance. Precipitation over the study periods ranged from extreme drought (J...

Timber harvesting, with and without prescribed slash ®re, and wild ®re are common disturbances in pine forests of western North America. These disturbances can alter soil nitrogen (N) pools and N supply to colonizing vegetation, but their in ̄uence remains poorly understood for many forests. We investigated the effects of clear cut harvesting and ®re on KCl extractable N pools, net N mineralizat...

Fraedrich, S. W., Cram. M. M.. and Handoo. Z. A. 2003. Suitabiliiy of southern pines. other selected crops. and nutsedge to a O~?~qicloru.s sp. associated with stunting of loblolly pine seedlings. Plant Dis. X7: 1129-l 132. An undescribed needle nematode (Longirlonrs sp.) has been associated with severely stunted loblolly pine seedlings at a south Georgia nursery. Containers with selected crop ...

--Cytological exploration of the pine genome has been ongoing for more than a century. For the first seventy years we knew little more than chromosome number for pines. Constancy in chromosome number throughout the genus coupled with uniformity in size and morpholo,y between chromosomes within species has given cytologists few practical means by which to distinguish individual chromosomes in Pi...