IUFRO Breeding theory and progeny testing

This page is under preparation. It will contain links to other web sites related to the work of this IUFRO unit.

Software

• Links to free quantitative genetics software maintained by Bruce Walsh.
• ASReml
• Official web site.
• ASReml cookbook, with explanations for the analysis of quantitative genetics designed experiments.
• Site for the Tree Breeding Tools created by Dag Lindgren.
• R is an excellent (and free as in speech and as in beer) general statistical package.
• Status Number Calculator is a free tool to calculate coancestries and status number from a pedigree. Simple to use.

Books

• The new classic: Genetics and Analysis of Quantitative Traits by Lynch and Walsh. When is volume two coming?
• List of books useful for quantitative genetics analysis in the ASReml cookbook.

Events and meetings

Apart from the list of coming events and news in our front page there are several other sites that publish lists of events and that, unfortunately, do not provide RSS syndication:

• News and events published by Dendrome, from UC Davis..
• IUFRO maintains a calendar of meetings.