Publications
NIBIOs employees contribute to several hundred scientific articles and research reports every year. You can browse or search in our collection which contains references and links to these publications as well as other research and dissemination activities. The collection is continously updated with new and historical material.
2001
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Anders Göransson Toril Drabløs EldhusetAbstract
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Anders Göransson Toril Drabløs EldhusetAbstract
The results strongly suggest that the growth rate of N. spruce is not correlated with the basecation/Al ratio in the rooting medium, but with the basecation/nitrate ratio
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Genetic associations between initiation of embryogenic tissue (ET) and susceptibility to the phytopathogenic fungi Ceratocystis polonica (Siem.) C. Moreau and Heterobasidion annosum (Fr.) Bref. in Norway spruce have been studied by initiating ET from zygotic embryos of mature seeds collected from 19 clones tested for susceptibility to the pathogens in a clonal field trial.Initiation frequencies varied significantly among clones (families), ranging from 12 to 56%. The family variance component accounted for more than 40% of the total variance in initiation frequency of ET. The estimates of broad-sense heritability of fungus susceptibility of the clones ranged from 0.12 for length of phloem necrosis after low-density inoculation with H. annosum to 0.55 for blue-stained sapwood after mass inoculation with C. polonica.None of the susceptibility measures showed any phenotypic correlation with initiation of embryogenic tissue. Genetic correlations and their standard errors were estimated by bootstrapping. Two measures of fungal susceptibility correlated genetically with initiation of ET; estimated at 0.58 for lesion length after inoculation with C. polonica and 0.29 for H. annosum lesion length. A better measure of susceptibility, blue-stained sapwood following inoculation with C. polonica, was not correlated with initiation of ET.
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Peder GjerdrumAbstract
Sawmill recovery might be improved by pre-conversion sorting of logs to obtain more homogenous timber quality suitable for specified products. To enhance the knowledge of factors influencing timber quality, 670 spruce trees from 11 mature stands were observed during harvesting and timber processing. By means of factor analysis several knot and resin pocket properties were reduced to two principal components, one representing the knots and another for resin pockets. The number of independent variables are not easily reduced, leaving a possibility of applying several of the characteristics of the logs, the trees and of the stands in finding an efficient log sorting algorithm.
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This manual contains description of field instrumemntation and the proceedures for field sampling of water and hadling of data at the Lei Gong Shan monitoring site in the Guizhou province of China
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Morten Ingerslev E. Mälkönen Petter Nilsen H.Ö. Nohrstedt H. Óskarsson Karsten Raulund-RasmussenAbstract
Previous research has documented that nitrogen fertilization can lead to a significant tree growth increase in large parts of Scandinavia. Nutrient management of Nordic forests is currently under debate, mainly because environmental values are believed to be unnecessarily endangered by these actions. Nutrient management including fertilization, liming, recycling of wood ash or application of alternative nutrient sources can counteract nutrient deficiencies and imbalances, and be used for compensating the nutrients removed through harvesting. For successful implementation of nutritional management measures, several questions should still be studied. These questions mainly concern diagnosis of the need for applications, nutritional sustainability and treatment effects on the forest ecosystem and the surrounding environment.
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Leif Jarle Asheim Lars Olav EikAbstract
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Tore SkrøppaAbstract
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