Genetic variability of argan tree and preselection of the candidate plus trees

Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 293-301

  Ait Aabd, Naima ^a   El Ayadi, Fatima ^a   Msanda, Fouad ^a   El Mousadik, Abdelhamid ^a  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Argan tree; Crushing seed; Oil content; Pre selection; Provenance

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649913390     PISSN: 0255965X     EISSN: 18424309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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