High negative genetic correlations between growth traits and wood properties suggest incorporating multiple traits selection including economic weights for the future Scots pine breeding programs

Annals of Forest Science

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 463-472

  Hong, Zhou ^a   Fries, Anders ^a   Wu, Harry X ^a,b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Correlation; Genetic gain; Heritability; Scots pine; Wood quality traits

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS FOREST; CORRELATION; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; FUTURE PROSPECT; GENETIC VARIATION; GROWTH RATE; HERITABILITY; PHENOTYPE; WOOD QUALITY;

EID: 84900399739     PISSN: 12864560     EISSN: 1297966X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13595-014-0359-3     Document Type: Article

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