General and specific combining ability from partial diallels of radiata pine: Implications for utility of SCA in breeding and deployment populations

Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Volumn 108, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1503-1512

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

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

BREEDING; VARIANCE;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BREEDING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; TREE;

AUSTRALIA; BREEDING; PINUS; TREES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 2942702160     PISSN: 00405752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00122-004-1598-8     Document Type: Article

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