IWST has standardized nursery practices to raise quality seedlings of sandalwood.
Seed
collection, handling, storage and germination methods have been standardized in IWST after
a series of nursery experiments.
Fresh sandal fruits are collected from IWST seed collection
areas, which includes grafted clones of plus trees from Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and
TamilNadu and Kerala and seedling seed orchard (SSO) from established in 2005. Currently
in clonal germplasm bank 44 clones with 307 ramets from Karnataka (18 ), Tamil Nadu 23
clones, two from Kerala and one from Andhra Pradesh
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