Simulation of hybrid forest tree breeding strategies

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 195-208

  Kerr, Richard J ^a,b   Dieters, Mark J ^c   Tier, Bruce ^a   Dungey, Heidi S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b MMI Genomics   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BREEDING STRATEGIES; HYBRID FORESTS;

FORESTRY;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BREEDING; FORESTRY; HYBRID; TREE;

EID: 1842785398     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x03-181     Document Type: Article

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