Level of heterozygosity and mode of inheritance of variable number of tandem repeat loci in avocado

Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 768-772

  Mhameed, Samir ^a   Sharon, Dror ^a   Hillel, Jossi ^b   Lahav, Emanuel ^a   Kaufman, Daniel ^a   Lavi, Uri ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

breeding; DNA fingerprint; simple sequence repeat; VNTR markers

Indexed keywords

PERSEA AMERICANA;

EID: 0030473086     PISSN: 00031062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/jashs.121.5.768     Document Type: Article

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