Post hoc blocking to improve heritability and precision of best linear unbiased genetic predictions

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2141-2147

  Gezan, Salvador A ^a,b   Huber, Dudley A ^a   White, Timothy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONING; CORRELATION METHODS; DNA SEQUENCES; ERROR ANALYSIS; GENES;

GENETIC VARIANCE; MODEL SELECTION;

FORESTRY;

CLONE; CORRELATION; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GENETIC VARIATION; HERITABILITY; PATCHINESS; PRECISION; SIMULATION;

CLONES; CORRELATION; FORESTRY; GENES;

EID: 33845624230     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X06-112     Document Type: Article

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