The use of molecular genetics in the improvement of agricultural populations

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 22-32

  Dekkers, Jack C M ^a   Hospital, Frédéric ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BREEDING; CROP; CROSS BREEDING; GENETIC IMPROVEMENT; HUMAN; LIVESTOCK; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PLANTS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036250060     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg701     Document Type: Review

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