Impact of reconstructed pedigrees on progeny-test breeding values in red spruce

Tree Genetics and Genomes

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 591-600

  Doerksen, Trevor K ^a,b   Herbinger, Christophe M ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

BLUP; Coancestry; Paternity; Pedigree reconstruction; Spruce

Indexed keywords

PICEA; PICEA RUBENS;

EID: 77954085459     PISSN: 16142942     EISSN: 16142950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11295-010-0274-1     Document Type: Article

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