Alfalfa forage yield and leaf/stem ratio: narrow-sense heritability, genetic correlation, and parent selection procedures

Euphytica

Volumn 205, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 409-420

  Annicchiarico, P ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Forage quality; Forage yield; Inbreeding depression; Medicago sativa; Selection scheme; Selfing

Indexed keywords

MEDICAGO SATIVA;

EID: 84938740615     PISSN: 00142336     EISSN: 15735060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10681-015-1399-y     Document Type: Article

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