How to calculate optimum family number when starting a breeding program

Forest Science

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 206-212

  Lindgren, Dag ^a   Wei, Run Peng ^a,b   Lee, Steve J ^c  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b Department of Renewable Resources ^*  (Canada)

^c Forest Research   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cost; Effective population size; Genetic gain; Heritability; Selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030972080     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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