The influence of cambial age on breeding for wood properties in Picea glauca

Journal article

We investigated the influence of cambial age on correlations between different wood traits and the possibility of early selection in order to help decision-making for the improvement of juvenile wood in white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss). Increment cores were analysed from 375 trees covering 25 open-pollinated families from a 30-year-old provenance-progeny trial in Quebec, Canada. Genetic and phenotypic correlations between different mechanical and fibre anatomy-related wood traits wer...

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Authors: Lenz, P; Mackay, J; Rainville, A; Cloutier, A; Beaulieu, J

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: TREE GENETICS and GENOMES
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 641-653
• Publication date: 2011-06-01
• DOI: 10.1007/s11295-011-0364-8
• EISSN: 1614-2950
• ISSN: 1614-2942
• Language: English
• Keywords: Genetic correlations; Picea glauca (Moench) Voss; Selection efficiency; Cambial age; Wood properties