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  1. Evaluation of long-term shortleaf pine progeny tests in the Ouachita and Ozark National Forests, USA

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    Author(s): Shaik M. Hossain; Don C. Bragg; Virginia L. McDaniel; Carolyn C. Pike; Barbara S. Crane; C. Dana Nelson
    Date: 2021
    Source: Forests
    Publication Series: Scientific Journal (JRNL)
    Station: Southern Research Station
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    Between the late 1970s and the early 1990s, the USDA Forest Service installed 155 shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata Mill.) progeny tests in national forests across the Southern Region of the United States. Using control-pollinated crosses from the Mount Ida Seed Orchard, 84 of these progeny tests were established in the Ouachita and Ozark-St. Francis National Forests in Arkansas and Oklahoma. Each of these 84 test locations had, on average, 33 full-sibling families representing three local geographic seed sources (East Ouachita, West Ouachita, and Ozark). Though largely abandoned years ago, the progeny tests that remain provided an opportunity to determine if significant genetic and genetic × environment variance exists for performance traits (d.b.h., tree height, and survival) decades after installation. In 2018 and 2019, we remeasured d.b.h. and height and determined survival in 15 fully stocked progeny tests. Family variances were significant (p < 0.01) for both d.b.h. and height but not for survival (p > 0.05). Seed sources differed significantly (p < 0.05) for d.b.h., with more pronounced latitudinal differences. Additionally, we determined that individual tree and fullsibling family mean heritabilities were moderate (0.15 and 0.72, respectively, for d.b.h and 0.09 and 0.41, for height), suggesting relatively high genetic to environmental variation and good potential for genetic improvement. We also found that shortleaf pine families were broadly adapted in this region since family-by-test variances were non-significant (p > 0.05).

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    Hossain, Shaik M.; Bragg, Don C.; McDaniel, Virginia L.; Pike, Carolyn C.; Crane, Barbara S.; Nelson, C. Dana. 2021. Evaluation of long-term shortleaf pine progeny tests in the Ouachita and Ozark National Forests, USA. Forests. 12(7): 953. 17 p.

    Keywords

    genetic variation, heritability, seed sources, progeny test, restoration

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