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Selection and Breeding for Extreme Genotypes

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Clonal Forestry I

Abstract

In general, tree breeders have not aggressively utilized all of the genetic variation available to them in forest tree populations. This reluctance has been due, in part, to technical limitations such as long generation intervals, strong inbreeding depression, lack of precise estimates of nonadditive variance, and difficulty in vegetative propagation. Research results over the last few decades present tree breeders with knowledge and techniques which together enable them to use more complex improvement plans to exploit the total genetic variation which is available.

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  1. USDA Forest Service, Plant and Soil Science Department, Alabama A&M University, Southern Forest Experiment Station, .O. Box 1208, Normal, AL, 35762, USA

    G. S. Foster

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  1. Institute of Forest Genetics, Federal Research Center for Forestry and Forest Products, Sieker Landstrasse 2, W-2070, Grosshansdorf, Fed. Rep. of Germany

    Mulkh-Raj Ahuja

  2. Department of Forestry and Resource Management, University of California, Mulford Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

    William J. Libby

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Foster, G.S. (1993). Selection and Breeding for Extreme Genotypes. In: Ahuja, MR., Libby, W.J. (eds) Clonal Forestry I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84175-0_5

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