Freesia: Freesia x hybrida

Flower Breeding and Genetics: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st Century

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 665-693

  Wang, Li ^a  

^a NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Corms; Cut flowers; Fragrance; Geophyte; Iridaceae; Potted plants

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919620874     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-4428-1-25     Document Type: Chapter

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