In seasonally dry environments such as the Zagros woodlands (Iran), severe drought stress and lack of appropriate management practices can cause failure of oak afforestation or reforestation. We investigated the effect of soil properties and burial depth on Persian oak (Quercus brantii Lindl.) establishment in different microhabitats resulting from...
Depuis 2003, le ministère de l'Agriculture et de l'Alimentation (MAA) met à disposition des reboiseurs et gestionnaires des fiches de conseils d'utilisation des matériels forestiers de reproductions (MFR), pour l'ensemble des essences réglementées par le code forestier pour la commercialisation des graines et plants. Portant à l'origine sur 49 esse...
The performance of hybrid larch (Larix × eurolepis) stands may be altered by the fact that the seed lots produced in hybridization seed orchards always contain a proportion of non-hybrid seeds. We studied the effect of such hybrid/non-hybrid mixtures on the productivity and quality of young plantations, through a three-step process: determination o...
Dispersal is a key process in metapopulation dynamics as it conditions species' spatial responses to gradients of abiotic and biotic conditions and triggers individual and gene flows. In the numerous plants that are dispersed through seed consumption by herbivores (endozoochory), the distance and effectiveness of dispersal is determined by the comb...
Arabidopsis seeds rapidly release hydrophilic polysaccharides from the seed coat on imbibition. These form a heavy mucilage layer around the seed that makes it sink in water. Fourteen natural Arabidopsis variants from central Asia and Scandinavia were identified with seeds that have modified mucilage release and float. Four of these have a novel mu...
Higher caffeine content and cup beverage bitterness considerably depreciated the commercial value of Coffea canephora Pierre (CAN) compared with C. arabica L (ARA). Wild caffeine-free species like C. pseudozanguebariae Bridson (PSE) offer the opportunity to produce new CAN varieties containing little or no caffeine. F1 plants resulting from a PSE ×...
