Abstract

Despite the higher heritability of earlywood density, the strong positive genetic correlation between those traits indicates little benefit from focusing solely on earlywood density when selecting for wood density. Analysing earlywood and latewood separately does not benefit from including the width of the corresponding ring section as a covariate. Juvenile wood may possibly turn into mature wood 15-20 y from the pith.

Keywords

wood density; growth; heritability; genetic correlation; Pinus sylvestris

Published in

Annals of Forest Science
2009, Volume: 66, number: 4
Publisher: EDP SCIENCES S A

SLU Authors

• Fries, Anders

  • Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Forest Science


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/forest/2009019

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/49829