Sex ratios and clonal growth in dioecious Populus euphratica Oliv., Xinjiang Prov., Western China

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 729-744

  Petzold, Anne ^a   Pfeiffer, Tanja ^a   Jansen, Florian ^a   Eusemann, Pascal ^a   Schnittler, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Annual increment; Clonal growth; Microsatellites; Populuseuphratica Oliv.; Resource allocation; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL INCREMENT; CLONAL GROWTH; MICROSATELLITES; POPULUSEUPHRATICA OLIV; SEX RATIOS;

CLONING; DNA SEQUENCES; ESSENTIAL OILS; FORESTRY; FRUITS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

ECONOMICS;

ECONOMICS; FORESTRY; FRUITS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SEQUENCES; VOLATILE OIL;

POPULUS; POPULUS EUPHRATICA;

EID: 84877803503     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-012-0828-y     Document Type: Article

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