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TAKING ROOTSTOCK— Workers load river cane plants freshly dug from a north Alabama site onto a trailer bound for greenhouses at Roundstone Native Seed in Kentucky as part of a river-cane restoration study AAES wildlife scientist Mark Smith is leading. At Roundstone, technicians are splicing off small sections of the plants’ rhizomes and cultivating those sections into small seedlings that eventually will be planted in test plots. River cane plants flower and produce seeds only once every 25 or so years, so restoring vast thickets of the native bamboo using seed would be out of the question.
Contact: Jamie Creamer, 334-844-2783 or creamjs@auburn.edu
OFFICE OF AG COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING
Auburn University College of Agriculture
Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
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AUBURN, AL 36849
334-844-4877 (PHONE) 334-844-5892 (FAX)
AgComm@auburn.edu
