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Comparison of Three Improvement Programs with Crop Breeding Programs

I've chosen to organize my comments into a series of significant current trends in research in plant breeding and genetics, and attempt to relate them, where possible, to forest breeding problems. It will be obvious that I feel that some of these trends are highly oversold or even irrelevant, while others are long overdue and have not yet been exploited adequately by the breeder.


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Author(s): James L. Brewbaker

Publication: Tree Improvement and Genetics - Southern Forest Tree Improvement Conference - 1967

Section: General Session