Discovering Pecan Roots Through Ground-Penetrating Radar

摘要

In the article “Pecan Tree Management after Storm Damage,” published with Pecan South in this year’s June issue, we discussed a long-term study to evaluate the management of epicormic shoot regrowth and nitrogen justification of trees’ partially lost canopy in an ice storm. At that time, we focused on canopy management and rarely thought about what was happening with the roots. There was very little research studying pecan roots; one of the reasons for that was researchers lacked a proper tool tomonitor root growth. We now have that tool: ground-penetrating radar (GPR).