Tree Breeding. Principles and Strategies

New York

1988

180 S.

zahlr. Lit. Ang.

Serie

0-387-96747-8

400091383

This volume is intended primarily for tree breeders, forest managers, and graduate students, and therefore we assume university training in forestry or applied biology, that is, a Bachelor's degree or several years experience in applied tree breeding. It is expected that the reader has some familiarity with basic genetics (e.g. Hartl, 1980), but we will cover the fundamentals of quantitative genetics. Falconer's (1981) text is a good introduction to quantitative genetics, while Namkoong's (1979) deals more specifically with forestry applications. It is difficult to follow the theory or application of quantitative genetics without some knowledge of statistics, and we assume that readers can familiarize themselves with basic statistical theory and applied statistics by consulting any of the numerous textbooks in these fields, such as Mendenhall et al. (1981) for statistical theory and Steel and Torrie (1989) for applications. An understanding of univariate statistics is important, because we will extend the applications to multivariate cases. Multivariate statistical methods are described in Morrison (1976) and Johnson and Wichern (1982).