Early growth performance and water use of planted West African provenances of Vitellaria paradoxa C.F. Gaertn (karité) in Gonsé, Burkina Faso

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 117-127

  Bayala, J ^a   Ouedraogo S J ^a   Ong, C K ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT ET DE RECHERCHES AGRICOLES   (Burkina Faso)

^b WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Provenances; Selection; Soil moisture; Transpiration; Vitellaria paradoxa

Indexed keywords

FRUIT; GROWTH RATE; JUVENILE; PROVENANCE; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL WATER; TRANSPIRATION; TROPICAL FOREST; WATER CONTENT; WATER USE; WETTING;

AFRICA; BURKINA FASO; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

VITELLARIA PARADOXA;

EID: 58149475247     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: 15729680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10457-008-9167-9     Document Type: Article

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