Methanol production from Eucalyptus wood chips. Working Document 2. Vegetative propagation of Eucalypts

Technical Report · Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1982

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6763898· OSTI ID:6763898

Fishkind, H. H.

The feasibility of large-scale plantation establishment by various methods was examined, and the following conclusions were reached: seedling plantations are limited in potential yield due to genetic variation among the planting stock and often inadequate supplies of appropriate seed; vegetative propagation by rooted cuttings can provide good genetic uniformity of select hybrid planting stock; however, large-scale production requires establishment and maintenance of extensive cutting orchards. The collection of shoots and preparation of cuttings, although successfully implemented in the Congo and Brazil, would not be economically feasible in Florida for large-scale plantations; tissue culture propagation of select hybrid eucalypts offers the only opportunity to produce the very large number of trees required to establish the energy plantation. The cost of tissue culture propagation, although higher than seedling production, is more than off-set by the increased productivity of vegetative plantations established from select hybrid Eucalyptus.

• Research Organization: Biomass Energy Systems, Inc., Lakeland, FL (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: FG07-80RA50316
• OSTI ID: 6763898
• Report Number(s): DOE/RA/50316-T1-Attach.2; ON: DE83001619
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Portions of document are illegible
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

09 BIOMASS FUELS
29 ENERGY PLANNING
POLICY AND ECONOMY
BIOMASS PLANTATIONS
VEGETATIVE PROPAGATION
EUCALYPTUSES
SEEDLINGS
TISSUE CULTURES
GENETIC VARIABILITY
BIOLOGICAL VARIABILITY
CLONING
PLANTS
TREES
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