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Growth Responses Of Genetically Improved Open Pollenated, Full-Sibling, And Clonal Loblolly Pine To The FlexstandTm Silvicultural System, Patrick Ma
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ABSTRACT Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) is often listed as the most commercially important timber species in the southeastern United States and is subject to genetic improvement via breeding programs to increase sawtimber yield, stem quality, and disease resistance. ArborGen has trademarked the FlexStandTM Silvicultural System (a method of interplanting rows of genetically improved trees with less expensive biomass trees) as a more economical solution to growing Loblolly pine. Two studies were conducted to in order to assess the FlexStandTM Silvicultural System. The first study assessed seedling mortality and growth of four different genetic combinations were assessed in the …