Breeding Douglas-Fir

Plant Breeding Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue , 2010, Pages 245-353

  Howe, Glenn T ^a   Jayawickrama, Keith ^a   Cherry, Marilyn ^a   Johnson, G R ^b   Wheeler, Nicholas C ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breeding Douglas Fir; Clonal forestry, production, testing and clone deployment; Distinctive characteristics of forest trees; Douglas fir breeding and research needs; Douglas fir Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco timber species in western North America; Douglas fir, for structural lumber and veneer the strongest and stiffest of North American softwoods; Ecological characteristics of forest trees impact on breeding programs; EUDIREC (European Douglas fir Improvement Research Cooperative) project collaboration with Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and Spain; Genecology, study of genetic differences in relation to environment; Open pollinated mating design breeding values of trees in wild stands or seed orchards

Indexed keywords

EID: 84950300760     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470650349.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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