Heritabilities of nutritive quality factors and interrelationships with yield in selected progenies of tall fescue

Plant Breeding

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 337-343

  De Santis, G ^a   Chiaravalle, E ^b  

^a Istituto Sperimentale per le Colture Foraggere   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLA PUGLIA E DELLA BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acid detergent fibre; Acid detergent lignin; Crude protein; Festuca arundinacea; Genetic variability; Heritability; In vitro digestibility; Neutral detergent fibre

Indexed keywords

AGRONOMIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIANCE; GENOTYPE; HARVEST PERIOD; HERITABILITY; NUTRITIONAL QUALITY; PLANT BREEDING; PROGENY; SEASONALITY;

EID: 0034860493     PISSN: 01799541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0523.2001.00617.x     Document Type: Article

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