Repeatability and minimum harvest period of cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) in Southern Bahia

Euphytica

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 29-35

  Dos Santos Dias, Luiz Antônio ^a,b   Kageyama, Paulo Yoshio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Minimum harvest period; Repeatability coefficient; Theobroma cacao; Yield components

Indexed keywords

BAHIA; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOTYPE; HARVEST PERIOD; PLANT BREEDING;

THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 0031812539     PISSN: 00142336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018373211196     Document Type: Article

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