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Testing shoot cold hardiness in Eucalyptus (Daneshill energy plantation 2007)

Summary

Several studies on growing eucalyptus in Britain have been undertaken over the last 25 years. All recognise the potential for establishing this species as a valuable forest crop while stressing the importance of selecting material capable of with standing the British climate. Developments in frost hardiness testing using shoot electrolyte leakage, enable rapid and reliable measurement of cold tolerance in trees. This technique is employed by Forest Research staff to predict the physiological condition of samples following exposure to simulated freezing conditions. Eucalyptus shoots were periodically tested to identify the hardiest and follow seasonally induced variations in winter hardening, loggers were be used to monitor site temperature changes between each sampling period. This dataset is comprised of cold tolerance data on eucalyptus specimens at various sub-zero conditions. It shows shoot frost hardiness (SFH) in terms of mortality at different temperatures, and also the Stem Electrolyte Leakage (SEL).

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Use limitation statement

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Licence

Contains Forestry Commission information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Attribution statement

Forest Research must be cited as the source of the data.

Technical information

Update frequency

notPlanned

Lineage

Data from excised shoots tested in programmable freeze cabinet and utilising industry standard electrolyte leakage assessment after various target freeze temperatures.

Spatial information

Geographic extent

  • Latitude from: 53.365 to 53.371
  • Longitude from: -0.981 to -0.975
Metadata information

Language

English

Metadata identifier

c326eece-1db9-4d97-ad71-8965b409e34b


Published by

Forestry Commission


Dataset reference dates

Creation date

31 July 2007

Revision date

23 June 2016

Publication date

N/A

Period

  • From: 01 March 2007
  • To: 31 July 2007

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