QTL influencing growth and wood properties in Eucalyptus globulus

Tree Genetics and Genomes

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 713-722

  Freeman, Jules S ^a   Whittock, Simon P ^a   Potts, Brad M ^a   Vaillancourt, René E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Eucalyptus globulus; QTL; Wood properties

Indexed keywords

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS;

EID: 70349495857     PISSN: 16142942     EISSN: 16142950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11295-009-0222-0     Document Type: Article

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