The high prices paid for genuine Mediterranean pine nuts kernels as gourmet nuts are due to an sustained demand on the world market, not met by the production harvested from the wild. The use of grafted Mediterranean stone pine trees allows landowners to establish profitable new plantations with precocious cone yields. For this purpose, genotypes have been selected in Spain and Portugal. Here we present 15 clones registered in Spain with estimated gains of around +10-30% in mean cone yield.
Registered elite clones for cone production in grafted stone pine orchard plantations
- Category: Wild Nuts & Berries
- Themes: Enhancement of production
- Position in the value chain: Forestry
- Type: Research
- Scale: Sub-continental
- Country: Spain
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- Keywords: agroforestry, basic materials, forest nuts, genetic selection, Mediterranean pine nut, orchard plantation, tested clones
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