Comparison of rolling front and discrete generation breeding strategies for trees

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 987-993

  Borralho, Nuno M G ^a,b   Dutkowski, Gregory W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b RAIZ Instituto de Investigacao da Floresta e Papel   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INBREEDING; PLANT BREEDING;

EID: 0031729962     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x98-075     Document Type: Article

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