… fruit traits to determine: (1) inter-annual variability, (2) spatial variability, and (3) identifying
fruit traits that impact on pine nut … Stone pine fruit traits that best explain cone to kernel yield. …

… with knowledge on the dependence of stone pine fruit production upon climatic conditions, …
observed for all fruit traits analyzed in this study. The highest fruit traits were recorded in the …

… Our analyses showed that stone pine cone, seed and kernel morphometric traits are
comparable or superior to values reported in the European producer countries, and confirmed that …

… Mediterranean stone pine is currently on its way to domestication. Its genuine Mediterranean
pine … at provenance level both at molecular markers and at fitness related phenotypic traits, …

… was electing superior Stone Pine trees to get the seeds with high genetic traits. Methods. …
traits of the trees in our sample are examined to determine the maximum value for each trait (…

… Nevertheless, perhaps as a consequence of the genetic depletion, some very characteristic,
common traits in stone pine were shared by all studied trees. One of these was a …

… Several morphophysiological aspects of stone pine, including cone and seed yield and
growth traits, demonstrate phenotypic plasticity, making them useful markers for evaluating the …

… Cones are harvested from Mediterranean Stone pine Pinus pinea L. for their edible kernels,
pine nuts, which have been used as a food item in the region since Palaeolithic times. At …

… We observed that irrigation has a significant effect both on growth traits (higher DBH up to
84%) and fruit production (higher cone production up to 15.2 times), concluding that irrigation …

… Stone pine growth throughout Chile was high compared to … breeding trait for increasing
potential growth of stone pine. … for stone pine in Chile determined according to stone pine DBH …