Correlation between clonal means and open-pollinated seedling progeny means and its implications for radiata pine breeding strategy

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1968-1975

  Kumar, Satish ^a  

^a Ensis   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONING; CORRELATION METHODS; SEED;

BREEDING STRATEGY; CLONAL MEANS; OPEN POLLINATED (OP);

FORESTRY;

CLONAL ORGANISM; CONIFEROUS TREE; CORRELATION; GENOTYPE; POLLINATION; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEEDLING EMERGENCE;

CLONES; CORRELATION; PINUS RADIATA; SEEDS;

PINUS RADIATA; RADIATA;

EID: 33749369574     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X06-082     Document Type: Article

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