Table 1.

Effect of pollination type on the production of maritime pine cones and seeds.

Mother tree	Mean cone length (cm)		Mean number of seeds/cone
	Open pollinated (Number of years)	Controlled crosses (Number of fathers)	Open pollinated (Number of years)	Controlled crosses (Number of fathers)
B5	15.2 ± 2.5 (3) b	12.1 ± 2.3 (3) bc	141 ± 11 (3) a	31 ± 18 (4) a
B12	19.0 ± 1.7 (2) a	15.1 ± 1.3 (3) a	115 ± 46 (2) ab	15 ± 17 (5) b
B14	13.2 ± 1.1 (3) c	12.5 ± 1.5 (3) b	87 ± 4 (3) bc	24 ± 15 (3) a
B25	11.8 ± 1.5 (2) d	10.2 ± 1.4 (2) d	103 ± 54 (2) ab	13 ± 13 (2) b
B50	12.0 ± 1.5 (3) d	10.6 ± 1.2 (5) cd	61 ± 31 (3) c	19 ± 18 (5) b
Mean	13.1 ± 2.5	12.0 ± 2.2 (5)	93 ± 43	19 ± 17 (7)

Mean length and mean seed content of female cones harvested in five maritime pine mother trees after open (sampled in 2012, 2015, and 2017) and controlled pollination (sampled in 2012 and 2017). Data, are means ± standard error of at least three cones. Within each column, values followed by the same letter did not differ according to the Mann–Whitney U-test.