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• In between plant and animal breeding 1

  Let’s start with the obvious: trees are plants and—unless you are breeding Ents—they do not walk around. Therefore, the first…
  2 Nov, '23

• Do I have pedigree errors?

  We just finished a genetic analysis, got breeding values for all our selection criteria, combined them with genetic parameters and…
  31 Oct, '23

• How old is your favourite language?

  We often forget for how long we’ve been writing code in specific languages. For example, I started using SAS in…
  31 Oct, '23

• All that glitters is not GxE interaction

  We are going over the fifth version(*) of a manuscript with a Ph.D. student and colleagues, polishing some details before…
  27 Oct, '23

• Chromatic

  皿 When in doubt, play chromatic Joe Pass
  23 Oct, '23

• Early selection: how early is early enough? Part 4

  In the previous post we were able to screen trees for wood properties at 2 years of age, separating normal…
  21 Oct, '23

• Early selection: how early is early enough? Part 3

  In my previous post we were able to detect extremes of wood density and stiffness with leaning trees at 8…
  17 Oct, '23

• Early selection: how early is early enough? Part 2

  In the previous post I mentioned that we wanted to screen trees for wood properties as early as possible, BUT…
  14 Oct, '23

• Early selection: how early is early enough? Part 1

  Different people write for different reasons. In my case, I write to remember how and why I did research with…
  12 Oct, '23

• Eucalypts essential oils

  These days I deal mostly with quantitative genetics and wood properties. However, trees are much more than wood and one…
  10 Oct, '23