Genotype by environment interactions in an Australia-wide radiata pine diallel mating experiment: Implications for regionalized breeding

Forest Science

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 29-40

  Wu, Harry X ^a   Matheson, A Colin ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Additive genetic variance; Breeding population; General combining ability; Genotype by environment interaction; Radiata pine

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; SIZE DETERMINATION; SNOW;

BRANCH CLUSTERS; GENERAL COMBINING ABILITY (GCA); REGIONALIZATION; SITE INTERACTIONS;

FORESTRY;

BRANCHES; BREEDING; DIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENT; GENOTYPES; PINUS RADIATA; SNOW;

EID: 16444366937     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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