Evaluation of vegetative growth traits and their relation to time to first flowering of olive seedlings

Australian Journal of Agricultural Research

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 371-376

  Pritsa, T S ^a   Voyiatzis, D G ^a   Voyiatzi, C J ^a   Sotiriou, M S ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Canopy shape; Leaf morphology; Olea europaea L.; Vegetative growth

Indexed keywords

FLOWERING; GROWTH DETERMINATION; LEAF; MORPHOLOGY; SEEDLING;

OLEA EUROPAEA;

EID: 0037994058     PISSN: 00049409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/AR02131     Document Type: Article

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