The Genus Allium: A Developmental and Horticultural Analysis

Horticultural Reviews

Volumn 32, Issue , 2010, Pages 329-378

  Kamenetsky, Rina ^a   Rabinowitch, Haim D ^b  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Annual developmental programs bulbous species and rhizomatous species; Bulbous group and rhizomatous group; Chemical composition; Genetic resources and possible use of wild Allium species; Genus Allium developmental and horticultural analysis; Juvenile period and reproductive state transition; Life form classification Allium species, of geophyte and hemicriptophyte groups; Morphological structures and comparisons between biomorphological groups; Propagation seed propagation and vegetative propagation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84960208119     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470767986.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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