Selection of parents for the Corsican pine breeding population in Britain

Forestry

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 205-212

  Lee, Steve J ^a   Connolly, Tom ^a  

^a FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREST MANAGEMENT; GROWTH RATE; PLANT BREEDING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

PICEA; PICEA SITCHENSIS; PINUS NIGRA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 3242690835     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/77.3.205     Document Type: Article

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