Silviculture, Forest Management and Agroforestry Division, Tropical Forest Research Institute, RFRD (PO), Mandla Road, Jabalpur-482021, Madhya Pradesh, India
*Corresponding author: ifgtbsara9@gmail.com (ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3203-2878)
Online published on 4 March, 2020.
Eucalypts are among the most widely cultivated forest trees in the world under a range of different climates for products that include pulp, paper fuel wood and solid wood products such as poles, furniture and construction timber. Productivity and profitability of plantations of Eucalyptus have been revolutionized with the development of genetically improved, fast growing and high yielding Clonal planting stock of Eucalypts. Eucalypts Clonal planting has been said to have advantages which includes quick provision of benefits associates with fast growth, short rotation for production of pulp wood (of around 70 MT ha−1 in 6 years) ready marketing and easy establishment and less maintenance needs. Clonal planting one among the approach for management of water and nutrients compared to the other conventional strategies. Studies relating to Clonal difference and evaluation for dry matter production will help for better water and nutrient use efficiency to overcome productivity loss due to deficit rainfall and optimum utilization of available natural resources for higher wood production. The present study was carried out to test the hypothesis that there exists a Clonal variation in dry matter production and the present study gives an insight in to Clonal variation in with reference to dry matter production of above ground and below ground biomass.
This article will give an idea of biomass production of various Eucalyptus clones
Biomass allocation will give better management idea for optimum use of natural resources
Helps to recommend site-specific clones and future breeding programmes
Eucalyptus clones, above ground biomass, below ground biomass, productivity
