Response to selfing in seed set, seedling establishment and nursery growth based on controlled crosses of Abies nordmanniana clones

Agriculture & Biology

• Abies nordmanniana 93%
• Christmas trees 84%
• seed set 60%
• selfing 60%
• plant establishment 59%
• clones 37%
• seed orchards 35%
• seedlings 25%
• seeds 22%
• ideotypes 19%
• consumer demand 16%
• inbreeding depression 16%
• growth traits 15%
• Denmark 15%
• thinning (plants) 14%
• sorting 14%
• inbreeding 13%
• growers 12%
• breeding 8%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• seed set 94%
• autogamy 87%
• seedling establishment 76%
• clone 60%
• seed 34%
• seedling 32%
• orchard 18%
• inbreeding depression 12%
• inbreeding 10%
• penalty 8%
• breeding 7%
• sorting 7%
• thinning 7%
• mortality 6%
• damage 5%
• economics 4%
• need 4%
• effect 1%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Abies 100%
• Seedlings 86%
• Infant Nurseries 71%
• Seeds 57%
• Clone Cells 44%
• Growth 28%
• Inbreeding Depression 14%
• Inbreeding 11%
• Breeding 9%
• Denmark 8%
• Economics 6%
• Mortality 4%