Climatic adaptation in subterranean clover populations

Euphytica

Volumn 92, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 39-44

  Piano, Efisio ^a   Pecetti, Luciano ^a   Carroni, Antonio M ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

adaptive traits; annual legumes; climatic variation; Mediterranean; self regeneration; subterranean clover; Trifolium subterraneum

Indexed keywords

TRIFOLIUM; TRIFOLIUM SUBTERRANEUM;

EID: 0030470849     PISSN: 00142336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00022826     Document Type: Article

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