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Exerpt from a Paulonia/Kiri tree release from Eco-Tech.

SGCP will benefit from these results. I could not reproduce the pics on Ihub but you can see them on the web.
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Dear Friends of EcoTech:

I thought you all might like to see these recent photos from our research plantation here at Fort Valley State University. I was there with Dr. Joshee and team on Friday removing a few more trees and root systems for our carbon sequestration measurements. I am happy to report that the numbers are excellent and in line with what we are estimating. On average, we are producing 200 wet pounds per tree per year of above ground biomass accumulation and more in some cases and we anticipated better tree growth in Sierra Leone. These are significant numbers when it comes to our carbon sequestration estimates and equates to over 70 tons CO2e per hectare. The detailed data will soon be published by graduate student Niraj Yadav in his upcoming thesis on Paulownia in early 2012.

You will also see a few photos of the ground and may wonder why in the world I took these. The reason I took these photos was to show the change in the soil quality under the canopy for land remediation benefits. You can also see the dense leaf cover on the ground, which is providing the natural fertilizer. We will take soil samples soon to check the nutrients so that we have the actual numbers on the nutrient levels and moisture improvements. The importance is that we are using the trees to remediate mined out areas in Sierra Leone, therefore, soil improvements are very important.

The other photos show seed germination in the lab and other lab propagation performance. You can see a few photos how there are more than two dozen shoots from one tissue culture. These shoots could then be split even further into single plants and create dozens of plants from one small piece of plant tissue. You can quickly understand why a lab in Sierra Leone is so important for the long-term benefit of the project - we can produce millions of plants in the lab within a very short amount of time. Here is a quick explanation of each photo:

Photo - Description
119 - germination of seeds in lab setting
120 - same as above
122 - propagation of multiple shoots from tissue culture
124 - same as above
129 - 2 year Paulownia for biomass
130 - ground under canopy, drastic change in quality from original soil
139 - root system of Paulownia, preparing for removal (we wash out soil so we can remove as much of the root systems as possible)
141 - same tree as above with one of the graduate student helpers
144 - bag of seeds from P. elongata collected from plantation - literally millions of seedlings (we are getting about 90 germination rate from seeds)
146 - fruit with the seeds exposed

I hope you find these interesting.

Kind regards,
Will

William C. Schuman
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