A long-term series of experiments to map QTL influencing wood property traits in loblolly
pine has been completed. These experiments were designed to identify and subsequently
verify QTL in multiple genetic backgrounds, environments, and growing seasons.
Verification of QTL is necessary to substantiate a biological basis for observed marker-trait
associations, to provide precise estimates of the magnitude of QTL effects, and to predict
QTL expression at a given age or in a particular environment. Verification was based on the …