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Heritability and C effects in early root growth of eastern cottonwood cuttings
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Heritability and C effects in early root growth of eastern cottonwood cuttings

  • James R Wilcox1 na1 &
  • Robert E Farmer Jr.1 na2 

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  1. James R Wilcox: Formerly of the Institute of Forest Genetics, Gulfport, Mississippi. Now with the Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana.

  2. Robert E Farmer: Southern Hardwoods Laboratory, which is maintained at Stoneville, Mississippi, by the Southern Forest Experiment Station in cooperation with the Mississippi Agriculture Experiment Station and the Southern Hardwood Forest Research Group.

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    James R Wilcox & Robert E Farmer Jr.

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Wilcox, J., Farmer, R. Heritability and C effects in early root growth of eastern cottonwood cuttings. Heredity 23, 239–245 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1968.31

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  • Received: 24 July 1967

  • Issue date: 01 May 1968

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1968.31

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