Open-nucleus breeding strategies compared with population-wide positive assortative mating: I. Equal distribution of testing effort

Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1196-1203

  Lstiburek M ^a   Mullin, T J ^a   Lindgren, D ^b   Rosvall, O ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c THE FORESTRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SWEDEN   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; ORCHARDS; SEED;

BREEDING POPULATION (BP); POSITIVE ASSORTATIVE MATING (PAM); PRODUCTION POPULATION (PP);

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREEDING; CROSS BREEDING; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; TREE;

BREEDING; CROSSES, GENETIC; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION (GENETICS); TREES;

FORESTS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; ORCHARDS; SEEDS; TREES;

EID: 8744240721     PISSN: 00405752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00122-004-1746-1     Document Type: Article

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