Contribution to the selection of productive progenies of Robinia pseudoacacia var. Monophylla carr. from young plantations in northern Greece

Forest Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 113-123

  Dini Papanastasi, Olympia ^a  

^a FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biomass; Clones; Crude protein content; Half sib families; Robinia pseudoacacia var. monophylla; Selection; Thorn length

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MONOPHYLLA; PSEUDOACACIA; ROBINIA; ROBINIA PSEUDOACACIA;

EID: 17544380393     PISSN: 1335048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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