Greener Journal of Biological Sciences

 

 

 

Phenological events and their interactions with climatic factors on Vitellaria paradoxa Gaertn

 

 

Sani SALE¹*, Halima M. ABBA¹ and Joseph A. MORAKINYO²

 

 

¹Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences, Gombe State University, Nigeria; sanisale20@ yahoo.com (*corresponding author); halimamohammedabba77@ gmail. com

²Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of Life Science, University of Ilorin, Nigeria; morakinyoja@ yahoo.com

 

 

 

  

 

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