Stone pine (Pinus pinea L.) is an economically important forest species in some regions of Iberian Peninsula. Portugal and Spain have nearly 500,000 ha of stone pine stands, representing 85% of worldwide distribution. The main use of this species is for the production of seeds (pinion) for food industry. In addition to its enormous profitability as a producer of seeds, it has beneficial impact on soil protectio...
Seed volume estimated from seed length and width alone using a published equation was compared with seed volume data for 690 species. Although the published equation holds far beyond the data range for which it was fitted, it could not provide accurate estimates for the whole range of seed volume abstracted from literature. Therefore a new equation was fitted implying a system of two equations to accurately est...
Stone pine (Pinus pinea L.) is an economically important forest tree in the Mediterranean region and has been the target of breeding and selection through micropropagation mainly for its ecological and ornamental aspects. A crucial step in micropropagation is adventitious rooting of microshoots, which often is highly inefficient in most conifer species including stone pine. Hence, we conducted in vitro co-cultu...
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