Efficiency of breeding strategy where grandparents - but not parents - contribute equally to the breeding population

Darius Danusevicius; Dag Lindgren

doi:10.1051/forest/2009124

Efficiency of breeding strategy where grandparents - but not parents - contribute equally to the breeding population

Darius Danusevicius
, Dag Lindgren

Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology

Publication: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

Abstract

Using larger number of parents than grandparents has the potential to improve annual genetic gain in the magnitude of 50% compared to the strategies currently used for Scots pine in Sweden.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-9
Number of pages	9
Journal	Annals of Forest Science
Volume	67
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1051/forest/2009124
Publication status	Published - 2010

Keywords

balanced selection
long-term breeding
gene diversity
optimising
Pinus sylvestris

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Efficiency of breeding strategy where grandparents - but not parents - contribute equally to the breeding population

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