Heritability of, and genetic correlations among, forage and seed yield traits in Ladino white clover

Plant Breeding

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 341-346

  Annicchiarico, P ^a   Piano, E ^a   Rhodes, I ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competitive ability; Forage yield; Genetic correlations; Interspecific interference; Narrow sense heritability; Seed yield; Trifolium repens

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE ABILITY; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENOTYPIC VARIATION; HERITABILITY; PLANT GENETICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

TRIFOLIUM REPENS;

EID: 0032847266     PISSN: 01799541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0523.1999.00387.x     Document Type: Article

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