Improving precision of breeding values by removing spatially autocorrelated variation in forestry field experiments

Silvae Genetica

Volumn 51, Issue 5-6, 2002, Pages 210-215

  Hamann, Andreas ^a   Namkoong, G ^a   Koshy, M P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Heritability; Kriging; Red alder; Tree breeding

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; FORESTRY; SOILS;

GENETIC GAINS;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

BREEDING; FORESTRY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; SOIL;

ALNUS; ALNUS RUBRA; BETULACEAE;

EID: 0013390435     PISSN: 00375349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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