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Research Article

Asynchronous flowering in clonal seed orchards - An effective strategy for alternative management

Soma Mondal*, Ashutosh Srivastava, Geeta Joshi and HC Yashavantha Rao

Published: 15 May, 2019 | Volume 3 - Issue 2 | Pages: 036-041

Tropical forests have long been of interest to biologists because of their high species diversity and their complicated patterns of community organization. The recent ecological studies which have demonstrated that tropical trees are diverse in their reproductive biology and dynamic population structure. Asynchronous flowering among the clones in a clonal seed orchard is an inherent problem resulting in poor seed and fruit set in them. These results in the complete defeat of the prime objective of establishment of clonal seed orchards (CSOs) i.e. abundant quality seed production poor flowering and asynchronous flowering between the clones are a major bottleneck in higher seed set in these clonal seed orchards across the country. Asynchrony found between clones may be attributed to the origin of clones, which are collected from different zonal populations as revealed by isoenzyme and DNA markers studies. This article reviews the work done in CSOs across the world and suggests an alternate strategy in designing the clonal seed orchards of the future.

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Keywords:

Clonal seed orchards; Fruit set; Flowering; Girdling; Prunning

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