Very Low Fruit: Flower Ratios in Grevillea (Proteaceae) are Independent of Breeding System

Australian Journal of Botany

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 465-478

  Hermanutz, Luise ^a   Innes, David ^a   Denham, Andrew ^b   Whelan, Robert ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPATIBILITY; FERTILIZATION; FLOWER; FRUIT LOSS; INBREEDING; PLANT BREEDING; SELF COMPATIBILITY; SELF INCOMPATIBILITY;

FLOWER; FRUIT SET; HERMAPHRODITISM; WOODY PLANT;

GREVILLEA LINEARIFOLIA; GREVILLEA LONGIFOLIA; GREVILLEA MUCRONULATA; GREVILLEA OLEOIDES; GREVILLEA SPHACELATA;

EID: 0031760639     PISSN: 00671924     EISSN: 14449862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/BT97046     Document Type: Article

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