Heritability and quantitative genetic divergence of serotiny, a fire-persistence plant trait

Annals of Botany

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 571-577

  Hernández Serrano, Ana ^a   Verdú, Miguel ^a   Santos Del Blanco, Luís ^b,c,d   Climent, José ^b,c   González Martínez, Santiago C ^b,d   Pausas, Juli G ^a  

^a CDIS UV Generalitat Valenciana)   (Spain)

^b INIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aleppo pine; Fire ecology; Heritability; Heritable plant traits; Pinus halepensis; Selection; Serotiny

Indexed keywords

GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; HERITABILITY; PHENOTYPE; PLANT COMMUNITY; POLLINATION; PROVENANCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEROTINY;

BALEARIC ISLANDS; IBERIAN PENINSULA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SPAIN;

FIRE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHENOTYPE; PINE; SPAIN;

FIRES; GENETIC VARIATION; PHENOTYPE; PINUS; SPAIN;

EID: 84906943367     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcu142     Document Type: Article

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