Pollen flow and paternity in an isolated and non-isolated black walnut (Juglans nigra L.) timber seed orchard.

Artificial pollination of black walnut (Juglans nigra L.) is not practical and timber breeders have historically utilized only open-pollinated half-sib families. An alternate approach called "breeding without breeding," consists of genotyping open-pollinated progeny using DNA markers to id...

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Main Authors: Aziz Ebrahimi, Shaneka S Lawson, Graham S Frank, Mark V Coggeshall, Keith E Woeste, James R McKenna
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0207861