Paraffin-embedded donor tissue blocks were sampled using a Manual Tissue Arrayer 1 instrument (Beecher Instruments, Silver Spring, MA, USA).
Vegetation was sampled using a block and cluster sampling design, registering tree, shrub, forb and grass species frequency, and the standing aerial biomass of the herbaceous layer in a sampling unit=1 ha.
Polygenic effects, s, and polygenic variance,, were sampled using a fully blocked implementation of the Gibbs sampler presented by García-Cortés and Sorensen [ 26] in the context of the Gaussian linear model.
Paraffin-embedded donor tissue blocks were sampled with 0.6 punchers using a tissue microarray (TMA) instrument (Beecher Instruments Inc., Sun Prairie, WI, USA).
Blue-colored blocks are samples to be coded using PCM and the yellow/orange ones are to be coded using MPCM.
Samples were kept on ice before and after sorting and a cold block was used to hold sample tubes during the sort.
Four plots were sampled for each timber species at each site using a randomized block design.
Cores from each tissue block were obtained using a disposable sampling tool (Harris Unicore, 1.2 mm) and total RNA was isolated using the Roche High-Pure RNA Paraffin kit (Roche Applied Science, Indianapolis, IN) [ 10].
Each of these is embedded (using our proposed scheme) in one of the 512 image blocks; whereby, the upper 8 8 pixels of the block are used to embed the sample real part and the lower 8 8 pixels of the block are used to embed the sample imaginary part.
This second memory block is used to store the output sample vector (X[i]).
