Morphological variability of Prosopis cineraria (L.) Druce, from the Cholistan desert, Pakistan

Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1589-1596

  Arshad, Mohammad ^a   Ashraf, Muhammad ^b   Arif, Niala ^a  

^a THE ISLAMIA UNIVERSITY OF BAHAWALPUR   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Genetic resources; Jand; Morphological variation; Prosopis cineraria; Toba

Indexed keywords

GENETIC RESOURCE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MORPHOLOGY; SEED SIZE; TREE;

ASIA; CHOLISTAN DESERT; EURASIA; PAKISTAN; PUNJAB [PAKISTAN]; SOUTH ASIA;

ISLAMIA; PROSOPIS; PROSOPIS CINERARIA;

EID: 33845359094     PISSN: 09259864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10722-005-8563-5     Document Type: Article

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