Development and evaluation of quantitative functions for early selection of Populus clones

Biomass and Bioenergy

Volumn 11, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 151-159

  Walsh, T A ^a   Burk, T E ^a   Isebrands, J G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

breeding programs; canonical correlation; moisture regimes; multivariatc techniques; Populus; selection function; short rotation forestry

Indexed keywords

CLONING; CORRELATION METHODS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FORESTRY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GROWTH KINETICS;

BREEDING PROGRAMS; CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HEIGHT GROWTH; HYBRID POPLAR PLANTING; MENSURATIONAL; POPULUS CLONES; ROTATION AGE VOLUME PRODUCTION; TREE VOLUME PRODUCTION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

POPULUS; POPULUS BEROLINENSIS;

EID: 0030512349     PISSN: 09619534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0961-9534(96)00036-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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