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Recurrent Selection in Forest Tree Breeding

The rapid development of applied tree breeding programs in the South has concentrated much of our earlier work on problems related to selection and establishment of sources for the production of improved seed. It seems appropriate, now that many of the original goals have been reached, that our attention should turn to thoughts of further cycles of selection in tree breeding programs.


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Author(s): Roy W. Stonecypher

Publication: Tree Improvement and Genetics - Southern Forest Tree Improvement Conference - 1969