Achieving higher heritabilities through improved design and analysis of clonal trials

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2148-2156

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; GENE TRANSFER; GENES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLONAL TESTING; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABILITY;

CLONING;

CLONE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; HERITABILITY; PATCHINESS; RAMET; SIMULATION;

CLONES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREES; VARIANCE;

EID: 33845643668     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X06-113     Document Type: Article

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