Heritabilities, age-age correlations, and early selection in lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta ssp. Latifolia)

Silvae Genetica

Volumn 45, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 101-107

  Xie, C Y ^a   Ying, C C ^a  

^a RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

accelerated breeding; age age correlation; early selection; heritability; Pinus contorta ssp. latifolia

Indexed keywords

PINUS CONTORTA;

EID: 0029840565     PISSN: 00375349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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