Potential for marker-assisted selection for forest tree breeding: lessons from 20 years of MAS in crops

Tree Genetics and Genomes

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1491-1510

  Muranty, H ^a,b   Jorge, V ^a   Bastien, C ^a   Lepoittevin, C ^c,d   Bouffier, L ^c,d   Sanchez, L ^a  

^a National Institute for Agricultural Research   (France)

^b Universite d'Angers   (France)

^c UMR 1202 BIOGECO   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Breeding strategies; Genetic diversity management; Genomic selection; Molecular markers; QTL

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027920750     PISSN: 16142942     EISSN: 16142950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11295-014-0790-5     Document Type: Review

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