Performance of twenty four european fraxinus excelsior populations in three lithuanian progeny trials with a special emphasis on resistance to chalara fraxinea

Baltic Forestry

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 17-34

  Alfas, Pliura ^a,b   Lygis, Vaidotas ^c   Suchockas, Vytautas ^a,b   Bartkevičius, Edmundas ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURE   (Lithuania)

^b VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^c Institute of Botany at the Nature Research Centre   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Chalara fraxinea; Common ash (fraxinus excelsior); Dieback; Genetic variation; Half sib families; Heritability; Populations; Resistance; Selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922684915     PISSN: 13921355     EISSN: 20299230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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