From flowering to artificial pollination in larch for breeding and seed orchard production

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 195-202

  Bonnet Masimbert, M ^a   Baldet, P ^a   Paques L E ^a   Philippe, G ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL POLLINATION; FLOWERING INDUCTION; SILVICULTURAL TECHNIQUE;

LARIX;

EID: 0031811665     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc74195-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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