OBJECTIVE FORESTRY

Detailed explanation-1: -Girdling, also called ring-barking, is the complete removal of the bark (consisting of cork cambium or “phellogen", phloem, cambium and sometimes going into the xylem) from around the entire circumference of either a branch or trunk of a woody plant.

Detailed explanation-2: -Girdling a tree, also called ring barking, involves removing the bark from a woody tree in a complete circle around the trunk or a branch. This will cause the tree to die because one of the plant’s essential transport systems, the phloem, lies in the soft bark that rests closest to the wood.

Detailed explanation-3: -Girdling consists of removal of a strip of bark from the trunk or major limbs of a fruit tree, thereby blocking the downward translocation of photosynthates and metabolites through the phloem. The best‐known effects of girdling are presumably brought about by accumulation of assimilates above the girdle.