Claim · model-written summary
Trembling aspen male backcrosses to P. Xrouleauiana females produced the fastest growing families at Lower Peninsula plantations.
- Taxon
- aspenst0
- Material
- Backcrosses of trembling aspen males to white poplar-bigtooth aspen (P. Xrouleauiana) femalese0
- Outcome
- fastest growing familiese0
- Direction
- fasteste0
- Setting
- Lower Peninsula plantationse0
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Verbatim
t0“aspens”
e0“Backcrosses of trembling aspen males to white poplar-bigtooth aspen (P. Xrouleauiana) females produced the fastest growing families at all Lower Peninsula plantations”
Title
Progeny testing of native aspens and their hybrids for biomass production in Michigan
G.L. Reighard; James W. Hanover Digital Commons - USU (Utah State University) 1985
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Association Trembling aspen families grew above the average of all aspen taxa, with performance increasing with site latitude.
- Observation Most P. Xsmithii hybrid families grew below plantation means.
- Observation Bigtooth aspen families had poor survival and growth at all plantations.
- Observation General combining ability for height and diameter growth was present in the aspen population.
- Observation Family-level genotype by environment interaction was small.