A Budget Tree Improvement Program

Hans Nienstaedt; Hyun Kang

doi:10.2737/NC-RN-294

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A Budget Tree Improvement Program

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Hans Nienstaedt, Hyun Kang

Year:

1983

Type:

Research Note

Station:

Northern Research Station

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2737/NC-RN-294

Source:

Research Note NC-294. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station

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Abstract

In an Upper Peninsula Michigan test of simple design, white spruce of a Beachburg, Ontaria provenance grew 17.5 percent taller than white spruce from the Ottawa N.F. The paper describes how to convert such tests to low-cost, low-risk, highly flexible improvement programs. The approach is applicable to other species of low priority.

Keywords

White spruce, Lake States region, genetic gains, seed production areas, multigeneration breeding

Citation

Nienstaedt, Hans; Kang, Hyun. 1983. A Budget Tree Improvement Program. Research Note NC-294. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station