1. Genetic analysis of wood quality traits in Norway spruce open-pollinated progenies and their parent plus trees at clonal archives and the evaluation of phenotypic selection of plus trees
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Zhou, Linghua, Chen, Zhiqiang, Lundqvist, Sven-Olof, Olsson, Lars, Grahn, Thomas, Karlsson, Bo, Wu, Harry X., and Garcia-Gil, Maria Rosario
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Physical instruments -- Analysis ,Genetic research -- Genetic aspects -- Analysis ,Natural selection -- Genetic aspects -- Analysis ,Earth sciences - Abstract
A two-generation pedigree involving 519 Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) plus trees (at clonal archives) and their open-pollinated (OP) progenies was studied with the aim to evaluate the potential of plus-tree selection based on phenotype data scored on the plus trees. Two wood properties (wood density and modulus of elasticity, MOE) and one fiber property (microfibril angle, MFA) were measured with a SilviScan instrument on samples from one ramet per plus tree and 12 OP progenies per plus tree (total of 6288 trees). Three ramets per plus tree and their OP progenies were also assessed for Pilodyn penetration depth and Hitman acoustic velocity, which were used to estimate MOE. The narrow-sense heritability ([h.sup.2]) estimates based on parent-offspring regression were marginally higher than those based on half-sib correlation when three ramets per plus tree were included. For SilviScan data, estimates of the correlation between half-sib, progeny-based breeding values (BVs) and plus-tree phenotypes, as well as repeatability estimates, were highest for wood density, followed by MOE and MFA. Considering that the repeatability estimates from the clonal archive trees were higher than any [h.sup.2] estimate, selection of the best clones from clonal archives would be an effective alternative. Key words: solid wood, Norway spruce, parent-offspring regression, heritability, repeatability. Une population pedigree de deux generations comprenant 519 arbres plus d'epicea commun (Picea abies (L.) Karst.; d'archives clonales) et leurs descendants issus de pollinisation libre (OP) ont ete etudies conjointement dans le but d'evaluer le potentiel de selection d'arbres plus en fonction de donnees phenotypiques prises sur ces derniers. Deux proprietes du bois (densite du bois et module d'elasticite, MOE) et une propriete des fibres (angle des microfibrilles, MFA) ont ete mesurees avec un instrument SilviScan sur les echantillons d'un ramet par arbre plus et 12 descendants issus d'OP par arbre plus (total de 6288 arbres). Trois ramets par arbre plus et leur descendants d'OP ont egalement ete evalues pour la profondeur de penetration du Pilodyn et la vitesse acoustique a l'aide d'un appareil Hitman, afin d'estimer le MOE. Les valeurs d'heritabilite au sens strict ([h.sup.2]) basees sur la relation parents-progeniture etaient marginalement plus elevees que celles basees sur la correlation de demi-fratries, lorsque trois ramets par arbre plus etaient consideres. Pour les donnees de SilviScan, les estimations de la correlation entre les valeurs en croisement (BV) decoulant de l'analyse des demi-fratries et les phenotypes d'arbres plus, ainsi que les estimations de repetabilite, etaient les plus elevees pour la densite de bois, suivie par MOE et MFA. Considerant que les estimations de repetabilite decoulant des arbres d'archives clonales etaient plus elevees que toutes les valeurs de [h.sup.2], la selection des meilleurs clones a partir d'archives clonales apparait comme une alternative efficace. [Traduit par la Redaction] Mots-cles: bois massif, epicea commun, regression parents-progeniture, heritabilite, repetabilite., Introduction Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) is one of the most important conifer species in Europe for both economic and ecological aspects (Spiecker 2000). Higher volume production, vitality, and [...]
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- 2019
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