Methods of plus tree selection for raising first-generation population for a tree breeding programme

Indian Forester

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 476-485

  Sidhu, D S ^a  

^a PUNJAB AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

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