Balancing seed yield and breeding value in clonal seed orchards

New Forests

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 11-22

  Lindgren, Dag ^a   Cui, Jianguo ^a   Son, Seog Gu ^a   Sonesson, Johan ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b THE FORESTRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SWEDEN   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Effective number; Gene diversity; Scots pine; Seed productivity; Status number; Truncation selection

Indexed keywords

CLONAL SEEDS; SEED YIELDS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CLONING; GENES; ORCHARDS; SEED;

FORESTRY;

CONIFEROUS TREE; FORESTRY; GENETIC VARIATION; SEED PRODUCTION; SELECTIVE BREEDING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

CONIFERALES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 3042727948     PISSN: 01694286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:NEFO.0000031327.30521.ca     Document Type: Article

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