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Scientia Silvae Sinicae ›› 2015, Vol. 51 ›› Issue (7): 166-166.doi: 10.11707/j.1001-7488.20150720

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The Fast-Growing and Salt-Alkali Tolerant Poplar Elite Variety of Populus simonii×P.euphratica‘Liaohu 1’

Wang Shengdong, Peng Rusheng   

  1. Liaoning Provincial Research Institute of Poplar Gaizhou 115200
  • Received:2015-05-25 Online:2015-07-25 Published:2015-08-14

Abstract: A new poplar elite variety of Populus simonii×P.euphratica ‘Liaohu 1’, with characteristics of fast-growing and salt-alkali tolerance, is a heterozygote derived from natural pollination of F1 of hybrids of P.simonii×P.euphratica, and it is female. The 18-years-old ‘Liaohu 1’ trees had the average tree height of 11.17 m, DBH of 17.26 cm and individual volume of 0.132 1 m3 grown in saline-alkali land with salinity 0.25%-0.4% and pH 9.0. Compared with P.×xiaozuanica ‘poplar’, the volume growth increased 140.0%. The ‘Liaohu 1’ has characteristics of fast-growing, salt-alkali tolerance, easy reproduction and cold-resistant.

Key words: poplar, variety, fast-growing, salt-alkali enduring

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