THE EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT FERTILIZER APPLICATIONS ON Acer rubrum `AUTUMN BLAZE' AND Acer rubrum `RED SUNSET'ON POT-IN-POT NURSERY PRODUCTION

Early Autumn Senescence in Red Maple (Acer rubrum L.) Is Associated with High Leaf Anthocyanin Content

Several theories exist about the role of anthocyanins in senescing leaves. To elucidate factors contributing to variation in autumn leaf anthocyanin contents among individual trees, we analysed anthocyanins and other leaf traits in 27 individuals of red maple (Acer rubrum L.) over two growing seasons in the context of timing of leaf senescence. Red maple usually turns bright red in the autumn, ...

Red Maple (acer Rubrum) Response to Prescribed Burning on the William B. Bankhead National Forest, Alabama

Prescribed burning is used as a management tool on national forests in the Southeastern United States to maintain oak (Quercus spp.) -dominated forest or woodland habitat. Few studies have examined response to burning at the stand, plot, and tree level. We documented red maple (Acer rubrum) response to dormant-season prescribed burns and the relationship with fire characteristics. At the stand ...

Identification of Acer rubrum using amplified fragment length polymorphism.

Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) analysis of botanical forensic evidence provides a means of obtaining a reproducible DNA profile in a relatively short period of time in species for which no sequence information is available. AFLP profiles were obtained for 40 Acer rubrum trees. Leaf material from five additional species was also typed. Genomic DNA was isolated using the DNeasy Pla...

The benefits of seed banking for red maple (Acer rubrum): maximizing seedling recruitment

Seed banking is assumed to be unimportant for temperate trees, because their seeds are short-lived in soils. However, even short-term seed banking could increase recruitment and affect population dynamics of seed-banking trees. To investigate this possibility, we examined early life-history stages of red maple (Acer rubrum L.), an abundant seed-banking tree in eastern forests. We found that see...

Pharmacy research at URI: mining red maple (Acer rubrum) trees for novel therapeutics to manage diabetes.