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Emery Davis wrote:

On 12/29/2011 03:13 PM, Michael Bell wrote:
I am germiminating Alnus seeds and growing them up under lights and I
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Hi Michael,

OT of this thread but I wanted to mention to you that I recently ran
across a paper that confirms that for Acer pseudoplatanus there is a
positive correlation between seed size and growth rate (seedling
weight). Further 20-30 yr old trees grown from large seed produce a
larger percentage of viable seed (non-parthenocarpic). I think it's a
fair guess that the same holds true for Alnus ssp.

I believe this is the link but I didn't mark it at the time:

http://www.valbro.uni-freiburg.de/pdf/paper_acer.pdf

-E
Thank you for this, but it's a long way down the road for me.

Michael Bell

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