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Overcoming Dormancy in Loblolly Pine (Pinus Taeda L.) Reprinted from: Edwards, D.G.W., compiler and editor. 1993. "Dormancy and barriers to germination." Proc. Internal. Sympos. IUFRO Project Group P2.04-00 (Seed Problems). Victoria, British Columbia Canada ' April 23-26, 1991. Forestry Canada, Pacific Forestry Centre, Victoria, B.C. Overcoming dormancy in loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) F.T. BONNER AND C.A. HARRINGTON u.s. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Southern Forest Experiment Station, Starkville, MS 39759, U.S.A. and Pacific Northwest Research Station, Olympia, WA 98502, U.S.A. Abstract Dormancy patterns in loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) were examined by comparing various parameters of germination rate. Both linear and polynomial models showed that mean germination time (MGT) was the most sensitive to chilling period. MGT was then used in a test of a new chilling technique that employed 24-h warm interruptions of chilling. This procedure produced faster rates of germination (lower MGT) in one group of 9 lots, but a second test with 15 lots yielded negative responses to any type of stratification. Resume Chez Ie pin a encens (Pinus taeda L.), les caracteristiques de la dormance ont ete examinees par comparaison de differents parametres du taux de germination. Des modeles lineaires comme polynomiaux ont montre que Ie temps moyen de germination etait Ie plus sensible a la periode d'entreposage en chambre froide. Cette duree moyenne a ensuite ete mise a profit dans l'essai d'une nouvelle technique d'entreposage en chambre froide qui comporte des interruptions de 24 h de rechauffement. Cette technique a accelere les taux de germination (temps moyen de germination raccourci) dans un groupe de 9 lots, mais lors d'un second essai sur 15 lots, a conduit a des resultats negatifs, peu importe Ie type de stratification. Introduction treatments. Effectiveness of chilling is also directly correlated with seed moisture content. Barnett (1985) Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) is arguably the most reported that full imbibition during chilling produced widely-planted single tree species in the world. Based the most vigorous germination, while any reduction on past surveys (McDonald and Krugman 1985) and below this level resulted in slower germination. This nursery production data from the United States (Lantz same relationship has been reported when chilled seeds 1988), an annual production estimate of 2 billion of loblolly pine are re-dried and stored; loss of chilling seedlings is reasonable. Loblolly is also generally stimulus (onset of secondary dormancy) is inversely considered to be the most dormant of the southern correlated with seed moisture content (Bianchetti pines (subsection Australes). Mechanical constraint by 1986). the seed coat appears to be the primary cause of Other treatments reported to increase rate of dormancy (Barnett 1972, 1976), but chilling provides a germination in loblolly pine include aerated soaking in stimulus to the embryo that promotes sufficient growth cool (5°C) (Barnett 1971) and in warm (24°C) water in to overcome the mechanical restraint (Carpita et al. the presence of light (Boyer et al. 1988), double 1983). stratification (chilling, interrupted by redrying and For many years, the recommended chilling period storage) (Boyer et al. 1985), and the presence of light for loblolly pine was 30 d(W akeley 1954), but research during chilling(McLemore 1964). has demonstrated improved performance of some seed Although effective methods are available to lots in nurseries with chilling periods of up to 90 d overcome dormancy in loblolly pine, the variable (Barnett 1985). Standard laboratory testing procedures dormancy exhibited by this species often causes call for 28 d of chilling (International Seed Testing inefficient use of seeds in nurseries. Better ways are Association 1985). However, loblolly pine, like most needed to quantify dormancy and to relate it to a temperate-zone species, has variable dormancy. flexible chilling method that will allow custom Studies have shown differences in degree of dormancy treatment of individual seed lots. At the Forestry among seed sources (Richter and Switzer 1982) and Sciences Laboratory in Starkville, Mississippi, one of among half-sib families (Carpita et al. 1983), as the research goals is to improve chilling methods for evinced by different responses to a range of chilling Table 1. Seed sources used in these studies. Lot identification Geographic source Crop year Experiment 1 09 Mississippi 1977 44 Louisiana 1982 84 Mississippi 1985 850 Georgia 1987 90 Mississippi 1990 Experiment 2 First Group 6-42* Virginia 1988 21-6* Alabama 1988 8-553* Alabama 1987 1158* Oklahoma 21* Louisiana 1988 8-05* North Carolina 1988 21-5* Alabama 6-8* North Carolina 1988 8-43* North Carolina 1984 Second Group 96 Louisiana 1984 18* South Carolina 1985 06* South Carolina 1985 37* South Carolina 1985 39* South Carolina 1985 85 Mississippi 1985 84 Louisiana 1984 79 Alabama 1983 86 Georgia 1985 76 Louisiana 1983 52 Alabama 1983 69 Mississippi 1984 44 Louisiana 1982 48 Southeast U.S. mix' 1983 .65 Southeast U.S. mix 1982 *Half-sib lots loblolly pine through a better understanding of loblolly pine seedlings (data on file, Forestry Sciences dormancy and how it is measured. In this paper, the Laboratory, Olympia, WA). research is reported in two parts. First, various Materials and methods parameters of germination rate were examined to determine the one most highly correlated with response Experiment1 to chilling. Second, the best parameter was used to Samples from five loblolly seed lots (Table 1) were evaluate a new chilling treatment in which single, short subjected to moist chilling at 2°C for weekly interruptions of chilling periods were imposed. This increments of 7-56 d. Four samples of 50 seeds each technique was inspired by the success of a similar from each lot were soaked overnight in tap water at treatment to reduce time to bud break in dormant room temperature (27± 2°C) and then sealed in plastic - Table 2. Chilling treatments used in Experiment 2. Experiment 2 Chilling treatments* Samples from nine half-sib families from an industrial seed orchard (Table 1) received chilling Treatment First group Second group treatments at 2°C for 0, 28, and 56 d, and other 1 None None treatments in which the 28- or 56-d period was (control) (control) interrupted by a 24-h period of 27°C in the dark (Table 2); Germination was tested, and the raw data were 2 28 28 analyzed in the same way as in Experiment 1. 3 7/21 7/21 Response to chilling was analyzed in a 2-by-2 factorial analysis of variance. This experiment was then 4 2117 14/14 repeated with 15 additional seed lots of loblolly from 5 711417 2117 samples stored at the Forestry Sciences Laboratory (Table 1). The two least effective treatments were not 6 56 56 repeated, but one new schedule was added. Tests and 7 14142 14142 analyses were the same as in experiment 1. 8 28/28 28/28 Results 9 42/14 42/14 Experiment 1 10 14/14114114 Results with simple linear models of chilling periods and germination rates were mixed (Table 3). The best *The 24-h warm breaks are designated by I; numbers response parameters, PV and MGT, were those most designate days of chilling at 2°C. directly related to rate of germination. R2 values ranged from0.456 to 0.833 for PV, and from 0.570 to 0.810 for MGT. Of the five lots, four had higher R2 bags. Control samples were also soaked overnight but values for MGT as compared with PV. did not receive chilling. When data were transformed, some improvement in Germination testing was performed on white blotters the linear fits resulted. From this point, results for PV at an alternating 20o/30°C regime according to and MGT only will be discussed (Table 3). International Seed Testing Association prescriptions Logarithmic transformations increased R2 values in (1985). Germination was counted three times per only 3 of 10 models, but square root transformations week, using ISTA standards to determine when seeds improved them in 8 of 10. Again, the higher R2 values were scored as germinated. Dormant, ungerminated were with MGT compared with PV. seeds were determinedby cutting at the end of the 28-d The best models of all, based on R2 values, were germination test period. Raw data were analyzed with those obtained with second and third order polynomial a computer program that reconstructs germination on a regressions(Table 4). In 9 of 10 cases, MGT was more daily basis and calculates all germination statistics highly correlated with chilling period than was PV. R2 accordingly. values for MGT ranged from 0. 575 to 0. 956 in the Germination rate parameters were regressed on second-order regression and 0.728 to 0.972 in the third­ length of chilling period to finda model that could best order regression. describe the effects of chilling for the five lots. As a result of these analyses, MGT was chosen as Parameters tested were peak value (PV) and the most sensitive parameter to use in comparing germination value (GV) (Czabator 1962), mean chilling treatments in loblolly pine germination. germination time (MGT), variance in MGT, and percentage of dormant seeds at the end of the test. Experiment 2 Both linear and nonlinear models were examined to In the first group, chilling caused significant. determine which parameter was most sensitive to reductions in MGT across all seed lots as expected chilling treatment. The amounts of variation accounted (Table 5). In treatments totaling 28 d of chilling, the for by the models (R2 values) were used to determine 2117 treatment yielded the lowest MGT (10.9), while effectiveness. The best rate parameter was then used the other interrupted treatments were not as effective as with a second data set to evaluate the effects of nw a straight 28 d.
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