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Family Selection on Height Growth in Open-Pollinated Progeny Trials of Pinus densiflora Using Relative Height Growth Rate  

Oh, Chang-Young (Department of Forest Resources Development, Korea Forest Research Institute)
Han, Sang-Urk (Department of Forest Resources Development, Korea Forest Research Institute)
Lee, Kyung-Joon (Department of Forest Science, Seoul National University)
Kim, Chang-Soo (Department of Forest Resources Development, Korea Forest Research Institute)
Oh, Chan-Jin (Jeollanam-do Forest Resources Research Institute)
Ji, Dong-Hyun (Chungchoungnam-do Forest Environment Research Institute)
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Korean Journal of Breeding Science / v.41, no.3, 2009 , pp. 220-227 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was conducted to select superior families based on the open-pollinated (OP) progeny tests of P. densiflora. A total of 232 OP families were analyzed for relative height growth. The OP progeny test trials were established at 1 to 4 sites from 1975 to 1987. To minimize temporal and spatial variation, we applied the standardization method for family selection. In each progeny test, superior and inferior families were selected at ages of 10, 20 and 30. Relative height growth rate (RHGR), growth speed at a given time unit, was comparatively high at age of 10 with range from 0.1 to 0.6 and showed a large variation among families. However, after age 15, the RHGR was low (average 0.04) and also the variation was not significantly different among families. To reduce selection errors due to age differences (from age 23 to 35) of tests, we made the family selection after age 15 when the values of RHGR were stable. Height growth at each age was transformed to be height growth at age 35 based on the RHGR. As the results, family CB2, CB3, KW99 and KW2 were selected as superior families and KW158, KW22, KB40 and GG1 were considered as inferior ones, respectively. Rank correlations (r) between test ages and selection age 35 were high and statistically significant; r = 0.881 between age 30 and 35, 0.653 between age 20 and 35, and -0.222 between age 10 and 35.
Keywords
Pinus densiflora; Progeny test; Relative height growth rate; Family selection;
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