Genotypic variation in wood properties and growth traits of Eucalyptus hybrid clones in southern China

New Forests

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 35-50

  Wu, Shijun ^a   Xu, Jianmin ^a   Li, Guangyou ^a   Risto, Vuokko ^b   Du, Zhihu ^a   Lu, Zhaohua ^a   Li, Baoqi ^a   Wang, Wei ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

^b Stora Enso   (Finland)

Author keywords

Genotypic variation; Growth traits; Pilodyn; Stress wave velocity; Wood properties

Indexed keywords

BASIC DENSITY; COEFFICIENTS OF VARIATIONS; FIELD METHODS; GENOTYPIC CORRELATIONS; GENOTYPIC VARIATIONS; GROWTH TRAITS; NON DESTRUCTIVE; PILODYN; PROPERTY ASSESSMENT; SITE INTERACTION; SOUTHERN CHINA; STRESS WAVE VELOCITY; WOOD DENSITY;

CLONING; FORESTRY; RATING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

WOOD;

BARK; CLONE; CORRELATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GROWTH RATE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MONOCOTYLEDON; TIMBER; WAVE VELOCITY; WOOD;

CHINA; CLONES; DENSITY; FORESTRY; RATING; WOOD PROPERTIES;

CHINA;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS HYBRIDA;

EID: 79957970641     PISSN: 01694286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11056-010-9235-7     Document Type: Article

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