Genetic parameters for earlywood and latewood densities and development with increasing age in Scots pine

Fries, Anders; Ericsson, Tore

doi:10.1051/forest/2009019

Research article2009Peer reviewedOpen access

Genetic parameters for earlywood and latewood densities and development with increasing age in Scots pine

Fries, Anders; Ericsson, Tore

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