Phenotypic diversity of date-palm cultivars (Phoenix dactylifera L.) from Morocco

Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 483-490

  Elhoumaizi, Mohammed Aziz ^a   Saaidi, Mohamed ^b   Oihabi, Abdella ^c   Cilas, Christian ^b  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

^b Univertsity Cadi Ayyad ^*  (France)

^c FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Cultivars; Date palm; Identification; Morocco; Phenotypic

Indexed keywords

CULTIVAR; GENETIC VARIATION; PHENOTYPE;

MOROCCO;

PHOENIX DACTYLIFERA;

EID: 0036813899     PISSN: 09259864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020968513494     Document Type: Article

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