An isozyme study of clone diversity and relative importance of sexual and vegetative recruitment in the grass Brachypodium pinnatum

Ecography

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 351-360

  Schläpfer, Felix ^a   Fischer, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONE; ELECTROPHORESIS; ISOENZYME; LAND USE; PHENOTYPE; SEED PRODUCTION;

ABUNDANCE; CLONAL GROWTH; DISPERSAL; LAND USE; SEED PRODUCTION; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION;

BRACHYPODIUM PINNATUM; LILIOPSIDA;

EID: 0345020476     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.1998.tb00400.x     Document Type: Article

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