Importance of studies in reproductive biology | Tree seed news
1999
Lusepani, E. | Shumba, E. M.
Although general phenological information on forest tree species indigenous to Southern Africa exists (Palgrave 1984), there is still a gap in the information on reproductive phenology. Several studies have concentrated on general phenology of species ( Miller 1949; Shukla and Ramakrishman 1982; Reich and Borchert 1982) except for Zictsman et al. (1989) who described both the vegetative and reproductive phenology for Ziziphus mucronata subsp mucronata. This absence of studies in the biology of indigenous species could be attributed to the fact that many of the species have never been cultivated. Because of a recent interest in the cultivation and domestication of indigenous fruit tree species in Southern Africa (Maghembe, 1994) there is a need to fill the gap in the knowledge of their reproductive phenology.
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