Age trend of heritability, genetic correlation, and efficiency of early selection for wood quality traits in Scots pine

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 817-825

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

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Early selection; Genetic parameters; Pinus sylvestris; Wood properties

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; HARDWOODS;

ANNUAL RING WIDTH; EARLY SELECTION; EFFICIENCY OF EARLY SELECTION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC PARAMETERS; MICROFIBRIL ANGLES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; WOOD PROPERTIES;

FORESTRY;

AGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; CORRELATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HERITABILITY; SELECTIVE BREEDING; TREE RING; TREND ANALYSIS; WOOD QUALITY;

BREEDING; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; SAMPLING; WOOD PROPERTIES;

SWEDEN;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 84933518425     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjfr-2014-0465     Document Type: Article

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