Within and among family variation of orchard and wild-stand progeny of interior spruce in British Columbia |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Michael?StoehrEmail author Greg?O'Neill Clint?Hollefreund Alvin?Yanchuk |
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Institution: | (1) Research Branch, Ministry of Forests, P.O. Box 9519 Stn. Prov. Govt., Victoria, BC, V8W 1N1, Canada;(2) Research Branch, Ministry of Forests, Kalamalka Research Station, 3401 Reservoir Road, Vernon, BC, V1B 2C7, Canada;(3) Research Branch, Research Branch Laboratory, Ministry of Forests, 4300 North Road, P.O. Box 9536, Stn. Prov. Govt., Victoria, BC, V8W 9C4, Canada |
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Abstract: | A common garden study was conducted with seedlings of the interior spruce complex Picea glauca (Monch) Voss and Picea. engelmannii Parry and their hybrids], comparing seedling height growth using open-pollinated orchard families and wild-stand (WS) families
from the same breeding zone. Phenotypic variances of three bulked orchard seedlots and three WS seedlots did not differ. Orchard
seedlots had generally higher within-family variance components than WS families. To examine year-to-year variation in orchard
seedlots, three seedlots, composed of the same 18 orchard families collected in three different years, were evaluated in the
same common garden study. Family mean heights within the three crop years were statistically not different; however, large
rank changes in family mean heights and family variances were observed. This study shows that orchard seed derived from breeding
programs does not reduce phenotypic variability in commercial plantations. In spite of the moderate to high selection intensities
applied to the selection of orchard parents, large amounts of phenotypic variation are maintained because of the lack of coancestry
in the orchard pollen cloud and large temporal variation in mating success and fecundity of the various parents contributing
to the crop. |
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