Across-site heterogeneity of genetic and environmental variances in the genetic evaluation of Eucalyptus globulus trials for height growth

Annals of Forest Science

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 183-191

  Costa E Silva, João ^a   Dutkowski, Gregory W ^b   Borralho, Nuno M G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

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

Author keywords

Breeding values; Eucalyptus globulus; Genetic evaluation; Heterogeneous variances; Selection

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEIGHT; SELECTIVE BREEDING;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS;

EID: 18044375817     PISSN: 12864560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/forest:2005010     Document Type: Article

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