From plant genomics to breeding practice

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 214-219

  Morgante, Michele ^a   Salamini, Francesco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE DERIVATIVE;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CROP PRODUCTION; GENE DELETION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HAPLOTYPE; MAIZE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; REVIEW; RICE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TOMATO;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0037728656     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-1669(03)00028-4     Document Type: Review

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