Uncovering genetic information from commercial forest plantations—making up for lost time using “Breeding without Breeding”

Tree Genetics and Genomes

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Lstibůrek, Milan ^a   Hodge, Gary R ^b   Lachout, Petr ^c  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

BLUP; Breeding strategy; Pedigree reconstruction; Tree breeding

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929378342     PISSN: 16142942     EISSN: 16142950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11295-015-0881-y     Document Type: Article

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