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A breeding strategy is a plan to achieve the objectives of breeding programs. The choice of breeding strategy is largely determined by the kind of gene action predominant in the population of interest, and on the methods that can be used to economically produce large numbers of propagules for plantation establishment If gene actions are largely additive and seeds can be produced cheaply in wind-pollinated seed orchards, a recurrent selection program to increase the frequency of desirable alleles in the population may be the breeding strategy. If non-additive gene actions are an important part of the total genetic variation, multiple breeding populations to increase the proportion of good specific combinations may be considered.
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Bridgwater, F. (1992). Mating Designs. In: Fins, L., Friedman, S.T., Brotschol, J.V. (eds) Handbook of Quantitative Forest Genetics. Forestry Sciences, vol 39. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7987-2_3
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