Variation of wood quality and yield in a Finnish series of provenance trials on Scots pine

The purpose of the study was to determine the effects of the origin of seeds and the location of cultivation of Scots pine ( L.) on certain properties particularly important to the pulp industry. The research material consisted of six parallel trials of the same 12 provenances. Increment cores were taken of a total of 1,267 sample trees, 19 years old. The location of the trial site generally affected the properties to a larger extent than the origin of the seed. The effect of the variation of wood density and fibre yield on the cultivation values of the provenances was only a few percentages on average, however, at most the effect was nearly 10%. Eastern Finnish provenances adapted well to western Finnish conditions.Pinus sylvestris

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