Common families across test series - How many do we need?

Forest Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 103-112

  Johnson, G R ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Common seed lots; Connectedness; Progeny testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 17444404966     PISSN: 1335048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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