Wood density variability in successive breeding populations of maritime pine

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2148-2158

  Bouffier, Laurent ^a   Rozenberg, Philippe ^a   Raffin, Annie ^a   Kremer, Antoine ^b  

^a UMR 1202 BIOGECO   (France)

^b National Institute for Agricultural Research   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARDWOODS; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; TESTING;

BREEDING POPULATIONS; GENERAL PATTERN; GENETIC EFFECTS; GENETIC IMPROVEMENTS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; PINUS PINASTER; WOOD DENSITY;

WOOD;

BREEDING POPULATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENSITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; GENETIC VARIATION; WOOD;

BREEDING; HARDWOODS; INDEXING; METEOROLOGY; PINUS PINASTER; TESTING; WOOD DENSITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

PINUS PINASTER;

EID: 49249101713     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X08-051     Document Type: Article

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