Pollen-tube growth rate and seed-siring success among Betula pendula clones

New Phytologist

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 243-251

  Pasonen, H L ^a   Pulkkinen, P ^b   Kapyla M ^a   Blom, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b Foundation for Forest Tree Breeding   (Finland)

Author keywords

Betula pendula (silver birch); Non random fertilization; Pollen competition; Pollen tube growth

Indexed keywords

CLONE; FERTILIZATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GROWTH RATE; POLLEN TUBE; POLLINATION;

BETULA PENDULA;

EID: 0032792377     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.1999.00451.x     Document Type: Article

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