by Audrey Verreault | 12 June 2020
Published in Plant Disease 80(5): 494-499 Erwinia carotovora and pectolytic pseudomonads are the most prevalent bacteria associated with soft rot of plants. A procedure based on random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis was developed to distinguish these...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 12 June 2020
Published in Plant, Cell and Environment 19: 949-957 Sudden but transient changes in the fraction of illuminated foliage area in a well-watered 7-year-old Pinus radiata D. Don tree were imposed by completely covering either the upper 22% or the lower 78% of the...
by Audrey Verreault | 12 June 2020
Published in Northern Journal of Applied Forestry 14(3): 117-119 Root suckers arising after cutting 10 yr old pin cherry in eastern Québec were studied. Most suckers emerged during the first 2 yr and only a small proportion emerged after 3 or 4 yr. The number of...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 11 June 2020
Published in Canadian Journal of Botany 75: 1424-1435 Silvicultural alternatives that differ in the degree of overstory removal may create shady environments that will be problematic for the regeneration of Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco). Gradients...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 11 June 2020
Published in Plant, Cell and Environment 20: 1462-1472 Experiments were conducted on well watered 1-year-old Douglas fir [Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco], western hemlock [Tsuga heterophylla (Raf.) Sarg.] and western redcedar (Thuja plicata Donn) seedlings to...