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How Much is Forest Genetics Helping the Forester by Increasing Growth, Form, and Yield

The available data on growth, form, and quality of individual trees and progenies are limited to rather young age classes. Charlie Webb will tell you how confident we can be in projecting our juvenile data and using them as a basis for selecting our best trees and progenies. With some degree of conservatism, here is some current information and what I think we might realize based upon it.


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Author(s): John C. Barber

Publication: Tree Improvement and Genetics - Southern Forest Tree Improvement Conference - 1963