Research

Walnut timber production in agroforestry systems

BOSQUES NATURALES have collaborated in the publication of a technical dossier about agroforestry systems. This document, focused on dissemination, is published by the Agriculture Department of the Regional Government of Catalonia and summarize the advantages of a wide variety of agroforestry systems, including many practical examples, such as the ones from Bosques Naturales SA.

The publication is accessible on the web: https://ruralcat.gencat.cat/documents/20181/5302088/Dossier+Tecnic+99_web.pdf/677bfaf2-1def-440d-8edf-4fa457193fbf

BOSQUES NATURALES and CREA publish the definitive version of the silvicultural manual
Thanks to the close collaboration between BOSQUES NATURALES and CREA within the WOODNAT project, we have just launched a definitive version of the silvicultural manual: Silvicultural guide to managing walnut plantations for timber production. This manual is published with the ISBN code 978-84-09-12163-2.
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Common walnut (Juglans regia L.) wood characteristics in two Italian plantations
by Castro, G.; Bergante, S.; Sansone, D.; Bidini, C.; Pelleri, F. (2019)
Research (https://journals-crea.4science.it/index.php/asr).
In: Annals of Silvicultural Research. 43(1), 2019: 35-40. http://dx.doi.org/10.12899/asr-1818

The Woodnat project (H2020) has the goal of identifying the problems that led to poor yields in walnut plantations established under the financial support of EU 2080/92 Regulation and Rural Development Programme, and of improving the market demand for smaller assortments. Some of the plantations monitored in the framework of the project needed thinning: one, an experimental stand with 5 plots with different layouts and species established in 1994, was thinned in spring 2018; in a second one, a polycyclic plantation established in 1996 with common walnut, hybrid popl
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Walnut rooting results in September 2018 at the facilities of Industrial Plants Ltd.
IndPl's Research team is currently doing large-scale experiments for the elaboration of an improved protocol for walnut in vitro rooting. This is necessary because the rooting protocol provided by Dr. Licea-Moreno from BN does not work at IndPl, although it works at BN. This paper is about this specific research.
Walnut rooting results at Industrial Pla[...]
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