Controlling parent contributions during positive assortative mating and selection increases gain in long-term forest tree breeding

Forest Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 35-53

  Rosvall, O ^a   Mullin, T J ^b   Lindgren, D ^c  

^a THE FORESTRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SWEDEN   (Sweden)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Effective population size; Genetic gain; Genetic variance; Inbreeding depression; Open nucleus breeding; Positive assortative mating

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141462444     PISSN: 1335048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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