Four cultivars of Japanese barberry demonstrate differential reproductive potential under landscape conditions

HortScience

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 762-767

  Lehrer, Jonathan M ^a   Brand, Mark H ^a   Lubell, Jessica D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Fruit production; Germination; Horticultural genotypes; Invasive plants

Indexed keywords

CULTIVATION; SEED;

FRUIT PRODUCTION; HORTICULTURAL GENOTYPES; INVASIVE PLANTS;

FRUITS;

CULTIVATION; FRUITS; GERMINATION; SEEDLINGS;

BERBERIS; BERBERIS THUNBERGII;

EID: 33646463485     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.41.3.762     Document Type: Article

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