Genetic variation in wood shrinkage and its correlations with tree growth and wood density of Calycophyllum spruceanum at an early age in the Peruvian Amazon

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 966-976

  Sotelo Montes, Carmen ^a   Beaulieu, Jean ^b   Hernández, Roger E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; FORESTRY; GENE EXPRESSION; SHRINKAGE;

PROGENY TEST; TREE BREEDERS; WOOD SHRINKAGE;

WOOD PRESERVATION;

CROP IMPROVEMENT; GENETIC VARIATION; GROWTH RATE; HERITABILITY; PLANT BREEDING; PROVENANCE TRIAL; SHRINKAGE; TIMBER;

DATA PROCESSING; FORESTRY; PICEA; SHRINKAGE; WOOD DENSITY;

AMAZONAS [PERU]; PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

CALYCOPHYLLUM SPRUCEANUM;

EID: 34547766421     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X06-288     Document Type: Article

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