Inheritance of flower colour and flavonoid pigments in Gerbera

Plant Breeding

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 377-381

  Tyrach, A ^b   Horn, W ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Elsner pac Jungpflanzen   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anthocyanidin biosynthesis; Flavone gene; Flavonoid inheritance; Flower colour; Gerbera; Mutants

Indexed keywords

GERBERA;

EID: 0030883938     PISSN: 01799541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0523.1997.tb01015.x     Document Type: Article

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