Caging Single Avocado Trees with a Beehive Does Not Guarantee Exclusive Formation of Selfed Progeny

HortScience

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1433-1434

  Degani, C ^a   Lahav, E ^a   El Batsri, R ^a   Gazit, S ^b  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Isozyme analysis; Persea americana; Pollination

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; FRUITS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PLANTS (BOTANY);

CULTIVARS; PROGENY;

BIODIVERSITY;

PERSEA; PERSEA AMERICANA;

EID: 0842302351     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.38.7.1433     Document Type: Article

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