Genetic variation and correlations between growth and wood density of Calycophyllum spruceanum at an early age in the Peruvian Amazon

Silvae Genetica

Volumn 55, Issue 4-5, 2006, Pages 217-228

  Sotelo Montes, C ^a   Hernandez R E ^a   Beaulieu, J ^b   Weber, J C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Environment; Family; Heritability; Juvenile wood; Phenotypic and genetic correlations; Provenance

Indexed keywords

CALYCOPHYLLUM SPRUCEANUM; GENETIC VARIATION; ENVIRONMENT; FAMILY; GENETIC CORRELATION; GROWTH DENSITY; HERITABILITY; JUVENILE WOODS; PHENOTYPIC CORRELATIONS; PROVENANCE; WOOD DENSITY;

TIMBER; WOOD; FORESTRY; HARDWOODS;

GENES;

FORESTS; GENES; JUVENILE WOOD; PHENOTYPES; PLANTING;

CALYCOPHYLLUM SPRUCEANUM;

EID: 33749163673     PISSN: 00375349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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