Vegetation along the River Murray floodplains has been shown to be in a severe state of decline. This decline is amplified by the impositions of river regulation. In South Australia, where vegetation losses have been great, regeneration is limited and may result in not only individual tree losses but also widespread population decline. This study aimed to examine the relationship between river flows and the regeneration process in populations of Eucalyptus camaldulensis and Eucalyptus largiflorens. The current structure of the populations was examined to determine if a viable number of varying age-classed trees were present. Tree surveys conducted at Banrock Station determined that while densities were low for both species, E. camaldulensis had a more sustainable population structure than E. largiflorens. Growth stages for both species illustrated highly clumped distribution, which is believed to correspond with river flooding magnitudes and frequencies. To address the potential link between tree distribution and flooding within the River Murray, a hydrological analysis was conducted for Banrock Station using river flows at the South Australian border from 1900 to 2003. The amount of time growth stages for each species were inundated was found to be greatly reduced under regulated flows compared to natural flows. This has resulted in shifted localized regeneration patterns corresponding with E. camaldulensis' greater demand for inundation than E. largiflorens. Moderate magnitude flows have been most impacted by regulation, and consequently these are the very flows needed for floodplain tree population maintenance. Flowering and seed fall for E. camaldulensis and E. largiflorens were monitored at Banrock Station for 22 months to identify losses in reproductive potential resulting from tree decline. While seed viability was not affected by vigour, trees with visually reduced vigour were found to produce less fruit and had reduced seed fall, as well as a reduced rate of fruit development. Dendrochronological techniques were applied to floodplain trees. Age and size relationships could be established, implying that such techniques can be applied in South Australia to high quality sites. Growth responses within cohorts were similar and easily matched between individuals illustrating cyclic, but not necessarily seasonal correlations. This work verified the preferential selection of younger trees for dendroecological studies, and identified a relationship between on moderate flows and measurable girth expansion in both floodplain tree species. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 2004.

A large sector of the forestry industry of South Africa comprises Eucalyptus species, covering approximately 49% of the forestry plantation area. Polyploidy induction has become an attractive tool to increase yield and reduce invasiveness in forestry species. Polyploidy induction in Eucalyptus using colchicine treatments on seed and axillary buds was undertaken to produce tetraploids that could be used in breeding programmes; specifically to increase yield and decrease species invasiveness through the production of triploids after crossing with diploid parents. Eight seedlots of E. urophylla and seven of E. grandis were treated with four colchicine concentrations (0.00, 0.01, 0.03, 0.05%) at two exposure times (18 h and 24 h), treating two seeds per treatment, repeated eight times. For axillary bud induction, 20 buds of two E. grandis clones and three E. grandis × E. urophylla hybrids and one E. grandis × E. nitens hybrid were treated with four colchicine concentrations (0.0, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5%) for three consecutive days. A known tetraploid hybrid E. grandis E. camaldulensis and its corresponding diploid were included as reference material. Seedlings and bud sports were pre-screened by determining stomatal guard cell lengths. Seedlings and bud sports displaying cell lengths significantly (p<0.0001) larger than the diploid were selected as putative polyploids. Polyploidy was then confirmed by quantifying the DNA content using flow cytometry. Stomatal frequencies and guard cell chloroplast frequencies were also determined in the induced tetraploid seedlings to evaluate their suitability to discern between ploids. All putative polyploidy seedlings, identified in the pre-screening process, were confirmed, using flow cytometry, as either tetraploids or mixoploids. Of the 17 E. urophylla putative polyploids, from various seedlots, six were tetraploid and 11 mixoploid. In E. grandis one of the five putative polyploids, from various seedlots, was tetraploid and four mixoploid. Pre-screening of bud sports was less accurate; only four of the 12 E. grandis hybrid putative polyploids were mixoploid and only three of the six E. grandis putative polyploids were mixoploid. E. urophylla seedlings were more sensitive to colchicine than E. grandis seedlings displaying a lower survival rate (52%) than E. grandis (63%). Extreme treatments that caused the lowest survival rates were also responsible for most of the polyploidy successful inductions; 0.05%/18 h and 0.05%/24 h for E. urophylla and 0.03%/24 h and 0.05%/24 h for E. grandis. Phenotypic effects of colchicine included shorter, thicker roots and hypocotyls; darker leaves; longer and narrower leaves in some tetraploids; and asymmetrical leaf margins in many mixoploids and tetraploids compared with the controls. In the tetraploids, stomata were significantly larger (p<0.0001) and less frequent (p<0.001). A significant (p<0.001) increase in the number stomatal chloroplasts was also ascertained. Confirmed mixoploid seedlings all displayed tetraploid leaves based on stomatal size and thus classified as periclinal chimeras. In bud sports, only leaves with islands of diploid and tetraploid stomata in the confirmed mixoploids were encountered. Mixoploid bud sports were thus either sectional or mericlinal chimeras. Stomatal size proved to be a suitable pre-screening method, especially in polyploidy induction in seedlings. Additionally confirmed tetraploids exhibited significantly different stomatal frequencies and stomatal chloroplast frequencies compared with the diploids, thus proving to be suitable detection methods for polyploidy screenings. Polyploidy induction in seed was effective, however, less effective in axillary buds which requires further research to refine methods. / Thesis (M.Sc.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2008.

[Truncated abstract] Eucalyptus occidentalis, a timber species from south Western Australia, is highly salt and waterlogging tolerant. Screening identified genotypes tolerant of high salt concentrations and waterlogging. Tolerance at provenance, family and individual level, and how phenotypic performance under salt and waterlogging was inherited was explored to provide a breeding population. Salt and/or waterlogged screening was carried out under controlled conditions up to extreme salt levels to determine tolerance between genotypes. This tank method was shown to produce repeatable results. Seedlings of 30 families from 9 provenances were used for screening. At low salt concentration (up to 300 mM NaCl), differentiation occurred for some traits but in general there was only a slight reduction in growth under salt, and waterlogging alone was not detrimental. At high salt concentration (550 mM) differentiation occurred among genotypes for all traits. Equivalent genotypes were also planted in field trials at three sites, two with medium (583 - 847 mm) and one with low rainfall (372 - 469 mm), in southern Western Australia. Survival was low (<53%) after 9 months due to an exceptional dry season followed by 3 months waterlogging in Kirkwood (38 - 1360 mSm-1), but was high >89% after 33 months in saline fields in Sandalwindy (96 - 976 mSm-1) and Roberts (88 - 1424 mSm-1). Some families were similarly in high rank for height under saline conditions in controlled and field trials. Height had the highest narrow-sense heritability value, especially under controlled saltwaterlogging (0.85) treatment and 20% selection enabled a gain of 8-14% under controlled conditions and in the field. Leaf production under salt was not an inherited trait. Systems were developed to hasten deployment of selected material. Extended daylength (16 h) and paclobutrazol (1 mg a.i/mm stem circumference) stimulated flowering in 2 year-old plants. Clonal propagation was possible. Grafting success varied from 0-100% depending on scion/rootstock provenances. ... There was only a slight reduction in heterozygosity from species level to provenance and family levels, and two superior genotypes maintained high diversity. v Crossing was possible using one stop pollination of cut immature styles and capsule retention varied from 0-34% and germination rate from 2-96%. Genetic distance between parents was correlated with seed set and offspring fitness. Wider genetic distances increased capsule retention, seed germination and seedling survival. Under 500 mM salt-waterlogging, offspring heights were similar when parental genetic distances were similar. High heritability value for height from ANOVA-REML parental screening was confirmed using parent-offspring regression. Screened superior genotypes, which withstood very high salt concentration, provide a breeding population for further breeding and for plantations under saline regions in low-medium rainfall areas in Western Australia and other parts of the world. These trees provide an economic return in areas where no other plants may survive and an environmental service in potentially reducing waterlogging, salinity and its spread.

Thesis (MScBosb)--University of Stellenbosch, 2007. / Bibliography. Also available via the Internet.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:35:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-12-08Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:25:24Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 pierre_fc_dr_botfca.pdf: 3662859 bytes, checksum: d1f2aa83f07d372cb3371c8f05a820e4 (MD5) / O setor de painéis de madeira tem apresentado forte dinamismo no mundo e, em especial, no Brasil. Esse mercado vem sofrendo mudanças, em função dos seguintes fatores: busca de alternativas à madeira maciça; modernização tecnológica do parque fabril, que proporcionou a oferta de novos produtos (MDF – Painel de Densidade Média e OSB – Painel Orientado) e a melhoria da qualidade (a evolução do aglomerado para MDP); redução dos juros e melhoria da renda, que deram forte impulso à construção civil e ao setor de móveis, ambos consumidores de painéis de madeira. No Brasil, a madeira de florestas plantadas – em especial, de eucalipto e de pinus – constitui a principal fonte de matéria-prima para produção de painéis aglomerados. O aproveitamento dos resíduos florestais para produção desses painéis ainda não foi implementado em nível industrial. A incorporação de resíduos florestais no processo produtivo demanda alterações de ordem tecnológica, organizacional e gerencial para racionalizar o uso dos recursos madeireiros. Este trabalho teve por objetivo avaliar as propriedades dos painéis de madeira aglomerada de três camadas, fabricados industrialmente, utilizando madeira de Eucalyptus grandis e resíduos industriais madeireiros (material reciclado de paletes e serragem, em diferentes proporções, variando de 10% a 35% em volume. Avaliaram-se as propriedades físicas e mecânicas dos painéis de madeira aglomerada fabricados com partículas de Eucalyptus grandis e resíduos industriais madeireiros e o efeito da mistura de diferentes proporções destes resíduos nas propriedades dos painéis. O material foi disponibilizado pela Eucatex S. A. Ind. e Com. da Unidade MDP localizada no município de Botucatu – SP, onde foram fabricados os painéis em escala industrial e os ensaios físicos e mecânicos foram realizados nos laboratórios de processo da Eucatex... / The sector of wood panels has presented strong dynamism in the world and, specially, in Brazil. This market comes suffering changes, in function of the following factors: search of alternatives to wood; technological modernization of the manufacturer park, that promoted the offering of new products (MDF – Medium Density Fiberboard, and OSB – Oriented Strandboard) and the improvement of products quality (the evolution from particleboard to MDP – Medium Density Particleboard); reduction of the interests and improvement of the gains of population in general, that had given fort impulse to civil construction and furniture sector, both consumers of wood panels. In Brazil, wood from planted forests - in special, of eucaliptus and pinus - constitutes the main material source for the production of particleboards. The utilization of the forest residues for production of these panels was not implemented in industrial level yet. The incorporation of industrial wood residues in the productive process demands alterations of technological, organizational and managerial order to rationalize the use of the industrial wood resources. This work had the objective of evaluating the properties of three layers particleboard, industrially manufactured, using wood of Eucalyptus grandis from plantation and industrial wood residues, in different ratios (adittion from 10% to 35% in volume). The physical and mechanical properties of these... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

Esta pesquisa visa comparar os volumes obtidos pelos métodos de Smalian, fator de forma, equação de volume e função de afilamento. Os dados usados compõem-se de 589 árvores distribuídas em 6 diferentes idades (Tratamentos), pertencentes a Duraflora S. A. de Agudos - SP. As árvores foram cubadas e calculados os seus respectivos volumes reais com e sem casca, através do método de Smalian. Baseando-se nos fatores de forma médios obtidos (Capítulo 1), foram estimados os volumes individuais e posteriormente as médias por tratamento com e sem casca. Através de equações volumétricas, previamente ajustadas (Capítulo 2), foram estimados os volumes individuais e posteriormente calculadas as médias por tratamento com e sem casca. Também baseando-se na melhor equação de afilamento (Capítulo 3), foram calculados os volumes médios por tratamento. Depois de calculados e estimados os volumes individuais pelos diferentes métodos e obtidas as respectivas médias por tratamento com e sem casca, foram utilizados o Teste de Bartlett, Análise de Variância e Teste de Tukey para realizar a comparação de médias volumétricas por classe de idade, tendo os volumes médios obtidos através do método de Smalian como testemunha (Capítulo 4). A análise de variância mostrou a inexistência de diferenças significativas entre os métodos para os 6 tratamentos com e sem casca, ao nível de 95% de probabilidade, não sendo necessária à realização do teste de comparação de médias de Tukey, ou seja, os diferentes métodos utilizados apresentaram volumes estimados estatisticamente iguais ao volume real

Cette thèse interroge la place des espaces forestiers dans une capitale africaine en mutation. Introduit à Addis Abeba il y a un peu plus de 100 ans l'eucalyptus a permis de répondre aux demandes des populations en bois d'œuvre et bois énergie. Les plantations constitutives de la forêt urbaine et périurbaine ont été développées au rythme de croissance démographique de la capitale. Mais les orientations nouvelles prises par les aménageurs urbains valorisent l'avancée d'un bâti vertical, qui ne s'accorde plus avec le voisinage de ces espaces verts productifs. De plus, l'espèce est décriée pour ses effets supposés néfastes sur l'environnement. Au cours de cette étude nous cherchons à saisir la dualité qui s'installe entre la volonté de valoriser une image moderne de la capitale éthiopienne et la continuité de pratiques forestières populaires, à l'œuvre dans ces territoires boisés. En nous basant sur des enquêtes qualitatives auprès des décideurs urbains et des acteurs de la filière eucalyptus nous interrogeons les nouvelles pratiques de l'environnement à Addis Abeba. La surreprésentation d'instances internationales joue dans la diffusion d'un discours global qui influence les perceptions de l'arbre par les autorités urbaines. Ces dernières discutent les fonctionnalités à valoriser dans ces territoires boisés tout en contrôlant l'accès à la ressource et les pratiques liées à l'eucalyptus. Les tensions qui animent les choix d'aménagement des acteurs urbains montrent les difficultés à concilier enjeux environnementaux et économiques dans la métropole addissienne. / This thesis explores the evolving place of forest areas in a changing African capital. Eucalyptus has been introduced in Addis Ababa more than 100 years ago in order to meet the locals' demand for timber as well as wood fuel. This urban and suburban forest was planted together with the capital's population growth. Yet, the new planning choices made by local authorities promote the advance of a vertical built environment, which is not anymore consistent with the proximity of those productive green areas. Moreover, this variety is highly criticized for its alleged harmful impacts on the environment. This study seeks to give an account of the duality that arise between the will to provide the Ethiopian capital with a modem image and the continuity of popular forestry practices at work on those forest areas. The analysis is based on a qualitative survey of urban authorities and stakeholders of the "eucalyptus' chain" strategies and explores the new environmental practices in Addis Ababa. The over-representation of international stakeholders in the city is an ideal vector for the promotion of global narratives which influence the local authorities' perceptions of that tree. Indeed, local authorities promote some specific functions for the forest, while controlling the access to the resource and the practices linked to the eucalyptus. The tensions that drive the urban authorities' planning choices highlight the difficulties in reconciling environmental and economic stakes in Addis Ababa.

Submitted by Marco Antônio de Ramos Chagas (mchagas@ufv.br) on 2017-05-19T18:07:25Z No. of bitstreams: 1 texto completo.pdf: 3186421 bytes, checksum: 6b051a14d14806ce9220bdb9e83b57ff (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-19T18:07:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 texto completo.pdf: 3186421 bytes, checksum: 6b051a14d14806ce9220bdb9e83b57ff (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-04-28 / O setor de florestas plantadas é um dos propulsores do desenvolvimento econômico do Brasil. O gênero Eucalyptus é um dos mais adotados nos programas de reflorestamento, se adaptando bem as condições edafoclimáticas brasileiras. Estudar o clima para fazer um bom planejamento agrícola é essencial, pois as variáveis climáticas são fatores imutáveis na produção agrícola. Assim, os modelos que tem como variáveis de entrada dados climáticos, são cada vez mais utilizados no planejamento das atividades florestais. Este estudo teve como objetivo identificar as regiões climaticamente homogêneas para a região Sul do Brasil, além de estimar a produtividade potencial do Eucalyptus saligna para a mesma região. As variáveis utilizadas para realizar a classificação climática foram: precipitação total anual média, temperatura máxima do ar média anual, temperatura mínima do ar média anual, umidade relativa do ar média anual e altitude. Os dados climáticos se encontravam em uma resolução espacial de 0,25° x 0,25° de latitude e longitude de uma série histórica de 1980 a 2013. Para os dados de altitude, utilizou-se um modelo digital de elevação, obtido através de dados de radar SRTM. Para gerar o mapa de grupos climáticos, foi escolhido o método de Análise de Agrupamento considerando os K vizinhos mais próximos. Para estimar a produtividade potencial dos plantios de Eucalyptus saligna para a Região Sul do Brasil foi utilizado o modelo 3-PG, parametrizado, calibrado e validado por Klippel (2015), considerando um ciclo produtivo de oito anos de idade. Por meio da estatística de evolução de grupos com valores de critérios de Davies-Bouldin foram foi definido que o número ideal de grupos climáticos são 9, onde foi gerado um mapa temático com as 9 regiões climaticamente homogêneas para a região Sul do Brasil. Os maiores valores de precipitação anual são observados nos grupos 5 e 8 e no grupo 2 observa-se as maiores médias de temperatura do ar. As estimativas de volume, incremento médio anual, diâmetro a altura do peito e altura pelo modelo 3-PG se comportam de forma semelhante, com maiores produtividades no litoral dos Estados do Paraná e Santa Catarina e na porção Centro-Oeste da Região Sul. De maneira geral, essas são as áreas com maior precipitação. Também são regiões em que não se observa temperaturas do ar máximas, como a região Norte do Estado do Paraná, ou mínimas, como nas regiões com altitudes elevadas. / The planted forest sector is one of the drivers of economic development in Brazil. The Eucalyptus is one of the most adopted in reforestation programs, adapting well to Brazilian soil and climate conditions. Studying the climate for doing a good agricultural planning is essential because climate variables are immutable factors in agricultural production. Thus, the models whose climate data input variables, are increasingly used in the planning of forestry activities. This study aimed to identify the climatically homogeneous regions to the south of Brazil, and estimate the potential productivity of Eucalyptus saligna for the same region. The variables used to achieve climate classification were: total annual average rainfall, maximum temperature average annual air temperature of the average annual air relative humidity annual average air and altitude. Climatic data were in a spatial resolution of 0.25 ° x 0.25 ° latitude and longitude of a historical series from 1980 to 2013. For the data of altitude, we used a digital elevation model, obtained through SRTM radar data. To generate the map of climatic groups, the cluster analysis method considering the K nearest neighbors was chosen. To estimate the potential productivity of Eucalyptus plantations saligna for the Southern Region of Brazil was used 3- PG model, parameterized, calibrated and validated by Klippel (2015), considering a production cycle of eight years old. Through the statistical evolution of groups with Davies-Bouldin criteria values it was defined that the ideal number of climatic groups are 9, which generated a thematic map with 9 climatically homogeneous regions to the south of Brazil. The highest annual precipitation values are seen in groups 5 and 8 and group 2 shows the highest average air temperature. volume estimates, average annual increment, breast height diameter and height by 3-PG model behave similarly, with higher yields on the coast of the states of Paraná and Santa Catarina and in the Midwest portion of the South. In Overall, these are the areas with the highest rainfall. They are also areas where not observed air temperatures peak, as the northern region of Parana State, or minimal, such as in areas with high altitudes.

Le contrôle génétique et l'environnemental de l'angle des microfibrilles (MFA), les corrélations génétiques du MFA avec d'autres caractères du bois et de croissance, et par conséquent les implications pour la sélection sont très peu documentés pour les Eucalyptus. Les objectifs de cette étude étaient d'établir la variation spatiale du MFA, de la densité du bois (ρ) et de sa rigidité (E); de déterminer les relations entre MFA et propriétés du bois et enfin d'estimer le contrôle génétique et environnemental des caractères du bois et de la croissance dans le cadre de tests clonaux et de test de descendances d'Eucalyptus au Brésil et au Congo. Méthodes classiques, résonance, diffraction des rayons-X et la spectroscopie proche infrarouge ont été combinées pour évaluer les propriétés du bois. La variation du MFA représente 44% de la variation du module spécifique (E/ρ) du bois. La densité du bois est le principal déterminant de la rigidité et de la résistance du bois alors que le MFA joue un rôle secondaire. Les estimations de l'héritabilité sont de modéré à élevées pour le MFA, ρ, E, la lignine de Klason (KL) et les caractères de croissance, selon la position spatiale et le dispositif expérimental. Le contrôle génétique du MFA, ρ et E et leurs corrélations génétiques avec KL et la circonférence à 1.3 mètre des arbres varient avec l'âge. Les résultats suggèrent que les arbres à forte croissance sont génétiquement plus aptes à produire du bois de faible densité et un MFA plus faible pour assurer la rigidité du bois nécessaire à leur développement. La plupart des propriétés du bois sont génétiquement corrélées négativement avec la croissance, bien que corrélations génétiques favorables entre propriétés du bois sont observés. Les corrélations génétiques et environnementales sont parfois de signes opposés selon les caractères considérés. Ceci peut s'expliquer par l'effet pléiotropique des gènes et/ou par le déséquilibre de liaison. Les conséquences de ces résultats sur les stratégies de sélection sont discutées selon l'usage final du bois d'Eucalyptus. / The genetic and environmental control of microfibril angle (MFA), the genetic correlations with other wood and growth traits, and therefore the implications for selection are poorly documented for Eucalyptus. Thus, the objectives of this study were to determine the spatial variation of the MFA, wood density (ρ) and stiffness (E); to determine the relationship between MFA and wood traits and finally to estimate the genetic and environmental control of wood and growth traits from clonal and progeny tests of Eucalyptus in Brazil and Congo. Conventional methods, resonance, X-ray diffraction and spectroscopy were combined to evaluate the wood properties. MFA variation accounted for 44 percent of the variation in specific modulus (E/ρ) of wood. The ρ was the prime determinant on wood stiffness and strength while the MFA played a secondary role. The heritability estimates were moderate to high for the MFA, ρ, E, Klason lignin (KL) and growth traits according to the spatial position and the experimental design. Genetic control of the MFA, ρ and E and their genetic correlations with KL and circumference of 1.3 meters of trees varied with age. The results suggest that tree with potential to grow fast are genetically more likely to produce low ρ and also to decrease the MFA for ensuring stiffness required for their development. Most wood properties were genetically negatively correlated with growth, although favorable genetic correlations between many wood traits were observed. Genetic and environmental correlations were sometimes of opposite signs according to the considered trait. This can be explained by the pleiotropic effect of genes and / or linkage disequilibrium. The implications of these findings for selection strategies are discussed according to the final use of Eucalyptus wood.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-09-02Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:55:20Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 losi_lc_me_botfca.pdf: 446005 bytes, checksum: 7d7c4bb09f14e32d875db21ebf299ae5 (MD5) / Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) / O presente trabalho teve por objetivo avaliar os efeitos de diferentes doses de extrato de Ascophyllum nodosum na produção de mudas de Eucalytus urograndis e Eucalyptus urophilla durante a fase de enraizamento. Os experimentos foram conduzidos em casa de vegetação, pertencentes às empresas VEC Florestal e Monte Flora, produtoras de microestacas de eucalipto e localizadas na cidade de Bofete, estado de São Paulo. O experimento foi conduzido em quatro fases no período de abril de 2009 a março de 2010, utilizando-se dois clones de E. urograndis (Euca 103 e Euca 105) e um clone de E. urophilla (I144), dois substratos (Brasil Minérios e Carolina Soil) e aplicação de diferentes doses de extrato de A. nodosum (EAN) 0, 0,5, 1, 1,5, 2, 3, 4, 8 e 16 mL L-1. O delineamento experimental adotado foi em blocos ao acaso com 4 repetições e 86 plantas por parcela. As aplicações do extrato de A. nodosum ocorreram aos 0, 7, 14, 21 e 28 dias após o estaqueamento variando conforme a fase. Foram avaliados a massa fresca de raiz (MFR), massa seca de raiz (MSR), comprimento de raiz (CR), massa fresca de parte aérea (MFA), massa seca de parte aérea (MAS), diâmetro do caule (D) e quantidade de raiz (Q) aos 30 e 45 2 dias após dias após o estaqueamento e análise química da planta. As avaliações permitiram observar que houve resposta diferenciada do EAN em relação aos substratos e ao material genético. O tratamento na dose de 3 mL de EAN para o clone I144 proporcionou melhor enraizamento das microestacas. Observou-se também que a forma de aplicação do produto interfere nos resultados / The objective of this work was to evaluate the effects of different rates of extract of Ascophyllum nodosum in the production of microshoots Eucalyptus urograndis and Eucalyptus urophilla during the rooting. The experiments were conducted in a greenhouse belonging to companies VEC Florestal and Monte Flora, two producers of microcuttings eucalyptus and located in the city of Bofete, State of São Paulo. The experiment was conducted in four phases between April 2009 and March 2010, using two clones of E. urograndis (Euca 103 e Euca 105) and one clone of E. urophilla (I144), two substrates (Brasil Minérios and Carolina Soil) and application of different rates of extract A. nodosum (EAN) 0, 0,5, 1, 1,5, 2, 3, 4, 8, 16 mL L-1. The experimental design used was randomized blocks with four replications and 86 plants per plot. The applications of the extract A. nodosum occur at 0, 7, 14, 21 and 28 days after the cutting. It were evaluated root fresh weight (MFR), root dry mass (MSR), root length (CR), fresh weight of shoot (MFA), shoot dry mass (MAS), stem diameter (D) and quality of root (Q) at 30 and 45 days after the cutting. The evaluations allowed to note that there was differential response of EAN in relation to substrates and genetic material, The dose of 3 mL of ean for clone I144 provided better microcuttings rooting. It was also observed that the way of the product application affect the results