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Images
Below you’ll find thumbnails that link to high-resolution images of willow planting, harvesting, and research. These images are copyright-protected. Feel free to use them for educational purposes and other non-profit uses with attribution to Cornell University. Otherwise, please do not use or distribute these images without permission.
Greenhouse pollinations 
Inspecting new seedlings 
Hand pollination 
Transplanting seedlings 
Seedling establishment 
DNA extractions 
Nursery beds 
Cuttings for field planting 
Automated willow planter 
Plot bags for hand-planting 
Spring Planting 
Establishment-year growth 
Herbicide application 
Polyculture study 
Collecting stem height 
Collecting stem segments 
Collecting stem diameter 
Fall harvest 
Winter harvest 
Post-coppice stems 
Hybrid shrub willow study 
Phenotyping in the greenhouse 
Collecting catkins for RNA 
Soil sampling tutorial
Videos
Visit the Willowpedia YouTube channel for a full list of videos.
Virtual field tour with Larry Smart, Professor, Horticulture Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell AgriTech, for the National Association of Plant Breeders 2021 Conference.
Larry Smart talks about the willow breeding program at the Cornell Lake Erie Regional Grape Program, Portland, N.Y.
Time Warner Cable News: Researchers Provide Information Farmers Need to Improve Production, Quality of Crops
Gillibrand: $4.3 million program to support shrub willow energy crops in NY
Willow pollen collection
Willow biomass boiler
Small Plot Willow Harvesting
Shrub willow harvesters
Anderson BioBaler willow harvester
Henriksson willow harvester
New Holland willow harvester
Stemster by Nordic willow harvester
New Holland FR Harvester
Tully Willow Harvest-CRL head
Shrub Willow Planting: Step and Egedal Energy planters
Planting willow cuttings – Frobbesta planter
Step planter
Improvement of woody biomass traits of shrub willow for renewable energy and biofuels: Michelle Serapiglia, post-doctoral associate, Department of Horticulture seminar series, October 31, 2011