Female performance in Euphorbia characias: Effect of flower position on seed quantity and quality

Seed Science Research

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 163-172

  Espadaler, Xavier ^a   Gómez, Crisanto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Campus de Montilivi   (Spain)

Author keywords

Euphorbia characias; Inflorescence architecture; Positional effect; Seed set; Spurge

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034806021     PISSN: 09602585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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