Broad- and narrow-sense heritabilities in a South African cloned open-pollinated Eucalyptus grandis breeding population

Southern Hemisphere Forestry Journal

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 81-90

  Snedden, C L ^a   Roux, C Z ^b   Verryn, S D ^a  

^a DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Additive genetic variation; Broad sense heritability; Cloned breeding population; Eucalyptus grandis; Narrowsense heritability; Non additive genetic variation

Indexed keywords

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS GRANDIS;

EID: 36448942940     PISSN: 10295925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2989/shfj.2007.69.2.2.288     Document Type: Article

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