Forestry and Game Management Research Institute Strnady

Forest tree seed management

• research on breeding and economic efficiency of European larch and Scots pine seed orchards, studies of protocols for collecting, storing, pretreating and evaluating the quality of the forest shrub seeds, development of protocols for the quality evaluation of the forest tree seeds, investigation of factors responsible for the inefficiency of existing, pre-sowing treatments with the goal to increase beechnut germination and subsequent beech seedlings emergence
• services - information, counseling and expert advice in the field of forest tree seed management
• quality tests of forest tree and shrub seeds by nationally (L 1175) accredited Seed Testing Laboratory