Reciprocal Recurrent Selection between Synthetic Multi Species Populations (RRSSMSP) of Eucalypt

Abstract

It is proposed a breeding strategy for eucalypt, which congregates in an individual desirable traits belonging to different species and capture the heterosis for growth, stemming from several pair of species of known heterotic behavior. Such strategy relies on obtaining two synthetic multi species populations and posterior reciprocal recurrent selection (RRS) between them. It is called reciprocal recurrent selection between synthetic multi species populations (RRS-SMSP) and improves the traits drought, disease resistance, volume, density, yield and lignin content. Options for making the synthetic multi species populations are presented. The RRSSMSP is suitable for applying the genomic selection.