Managing genetic gain and diversity in clonal deployment of white spruce in New Brunswick, Canada

Tree Genetics and Genomes

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 367-376

  Weng, Yuhui ^a   Park, Yill Sung ^b   Krasowski, Marek J ^c  

^a New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clonal forestry; Effective population size; Family restriction; Selection methods

Indexed keywords

PICEA GLAUCA;

EID: 77955052649     PISSN: 16142942     EISSN: 16142950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11295-009-0255-4     Document Type: Article

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