... of wood mechanical properties [1, 36, 41, 43, 48, 67].Fairly strong positive correlations between modulus of elas-ticity (MOE), a basic mechanical property of softwoods, and density have often ... quality of theproduct, (2) to estimate the possibilities of genetic improve-ment of these key properties and (3) to estimate the correlatedresponse to selection for key properties of other ... a large set of wood properties in a wide range of experimental designs(diallel, factorial and clonal tests). This paper describes astudy of the genetic determinism of a large set of wood prop-erties...