Genetic Improvements in Forest Trees - Growth Rate and Wood Characteristics in Young Loblolly Pine


Our assignment is to set the tone for the portion of the SFTIC meeting dealing with gains and improvements in forest trees through use of genetics. This could be done rather dramatically by citation of proper references,because a lot of solid information is now available. But most of you are familiar with results from the tree improvement effort and you will hear many more newer findings at this meeting. Therefore, we will only briefly summarize in general terms overall results and some of the trends for the southern pines; the bulk of this paper will describe volume and dry wood yields, wood differences and the relationship of wood density to growth rate among progeny tests of 43 families in the N. C. State Cooperative Programs.
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Publication 10th Southern Forest Tree Improvement Conference Proceedings
Event Houston, TX - 1969
Author Bruce Zobel, Robert Kellison, and Martha Matthias
Published 1969/06/19
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