Genetic relationships between wood quality traits and diameter growth of juvenile core wood in Sitka spruce

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-6

  Kennedy, S G ^a   Cameron, A D ^a   Lee, S J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATIONS; BREEDING PROGRAMMES; CONIFER STANDS; DIAMETER GROWTH; DIAMETER-AT-BREAST HEIGHTS; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; DIRECT MEASURES; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC RELATIONSHIPS; INDIRECT METHODS; MATURE WOOD; MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE; MICROFIBRIL ANGLES; PICEA SITCHENSIS; PILODYN; SITKA SPRUCE; STANDING TREE; WOOD PROPERTIES; WOOD QUALITIES; WOOD SAMPLES;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ELASTIC MODULI; WOOD;

FORESTRY;

ACOUSTIC METHOD; CONIFEROUS TREE; DIAMETER; ELASTIC MODULUS; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GROWTH RATE; JUVENILE; PLANT BREEDING; SELECTIVE BREEDING; WOOD QUALITY;

ACOUSTICS; ELASTICITY; FORESTRY; PICEA SITCHENSIS; WOOD; WOOD PROPERTIES;

CONIFEROPHYTA; PICEA SITCHENSIS;

EID: 84873731164     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjfr-2012-0308     Document Type: Article

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