Variability and early selection on the seedling stage for agronomic traits in progenies from olive crosses

Plant Breeding

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 73-78

  Leon L ^a,c   Rallo, L ^a   Del Rio C ^b   Martin L M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^b CIFA 'Alameda del Obispo'   (Spain)

^c ASHTOWN FOOD RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Fruit characters; Oil content; Olea europaea; Repeatability; Variance components

Indexed keywords

OLEA EUROPAEA;

EID: 1642297554     PISSN: 01799541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0179-9541.2003.00920.x     Document Type: Article

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