Optimizing early flowering and pre-selection for short juvenile period in olive seedlings

HortScience

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 519-522

  Moreno Alías, Inmaculada ^a,b   Rapoport, Hava F ^b   López, Rafael ^a   León, Lorenzo ^a   de la Rosa, Raúl ^a  

^a IFAPA CENTRO ALAMEDA DEL OBISPO   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE AGRICULTURA SOSTENIBLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Breeding; Height; Juvenility; Olea europaea; Transplant time

Indexed keywords

OLEA EUROPAEA;

EID: 77952020969     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.45.4.519     Document Type: Article

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