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Early Testing - An Overview With Emphasis On Loblolly Pine

"Early testing" for growth rate has the potential to reduce the generation cycle in loblolly pine by 4-8 years as compared to conventional field testing, though it is not yet on operational procedure. Research in this area has been hampered by a scarcity of well-designed and economically mature genetic tests by which the "early test" is gauged and sampling problems associated with characterizing family rank correlations between experiments when heritabilities are low to moderate.


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Author(s): Clements C. Lambeth

Publication: Tree Improvement and Genetics - Southern Forest Tree Improvement Conference - 1983