Vegetative Propagation of American Beech Resistant to Beech Bark Disease
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The objective of this study was to develop vegetative propagation techniques—using tissue culture and grafting—for American beech ( Fagus grandifolia ) resistant to beech bark disease. Resterilizing the buds after excising bud scales reduced contamination of in vitro cultures derived from dormant buds. Application of a 7-day dark treatment before transferring shoots to the rooting medium improved rooting success. Plantlets gradually acclimatized to nonsterile growth conditions and set buds but failed to survive the dormant period. The application of 6-benzyladenine enhanced sprouting from roots collected from mature trees, but the excised shoots rooted poorly in vitro despite low contamination. Success of grafting scions from mature trees varied among genotypes and differed each year (30% in 2003, 12% in 2004, and 18% in 2005). Applying the growth hormone indole butyric acid to the scion before joining it to the rootstock did not increase grafting success. Survival of grafts was independent of rootstock age (1 or 2 years old). Grafting success increased when scion diameter was slightly larger than rootstock diameter. The rooting of sucker cuttings was successful for only one genotype. Critical steps, in which most failures in the propagation of American beech occur, are identified.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".