PATAIAS SCIENCE BOOSTS MORE PRODUCTIVE SPECIES IN RESIN
An experience in the Alva forest perimeter, in Pataias, shows the new generation of pine trees that is being born with the genetic improvement program applied to the resin.
The announcement was made by the PINUS Center, through the dissemination of an informative video, with footage that accompanies the grafts started in 202k for the installation of the clonal assay
. The experiment was implemented in a six-hectare plantation of maritime pine located in the forest perimeter, in an area provided by the Institute for Nature Conservation and Forests.
“The RN21 project – Innovation in the Natural Resin Sector to Strengthen the National Bioeconomy – marks a turning point in the history of resin in Portugal”, reads the publication of the PINUS Centre, with the title “Pines of the future: more resin production with RN21”.
From forest production to transformation, the purpose of the consortium integrated by the PINUS Centre is to make the ancestral practice, inseparable from maritime pine, more efficient, innovative, and attractive
for the management and enhancement of the maritime pine forest.
The video explains the national genetic improvement program that promises maritime pines will be more productive in resin and features one of the experienced grafting technicians of the Association of Forest Producers of the Municipalities of Alcobaça and Nazaré, who shows the “art” of grafting the maritime pine.
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