Evaluating fertility of triploid clones of hypericum androsaemum L. for use as non-invasive landscape plants

HortScience

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1026-1028

  Trueblood, Clara E ^a   Ranney, Thomas G ^a   Lynch, Nathan P ^a   Neal, Joseph C ^a   Olsen, Richard T ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Invasive plants; Ornamental plant breeding; Reproductive biology; St. John's wort; Tutsan

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954848387     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.45.7.1026     Document Type: Article

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