TY  - BOOK
AU  - Seneviratne P
AU  - Nugawela A
AU  - Ramawickrama D
TI  - The correlation between branching and the tree growth of Hevea brasiliensis (Muell. Arg)
PY  - 1996///
PB  - Journal of the Rubber Research Institute of Sri Lanka
KW  - Branching
KW  - Growth
KW  - Hevea brasiliensis
KW  - Rubber
N2  - The  main objective of the present study was to see whether there is a correlation between the number of branches and the tree growth in Hevea brasiliensis. Considerable variation in branching habits is observed among the trees of different clones. Also, some clones such as RRIC 121 show less branching when compared to other clones such as RRIC 100 indicating branching is also a clonal characteristic. Canopy architecture too, shows differences among trees within a clone. Highly significant positive correlation was obsedved between the number of branches and the tree girth for all clones tested for trees aged from one year to seven years. The correlation between the canopy distribution (grouped as very good, good or poor) and the tree girth was also positive
ER  -