Some characteristics of wild and managed coconut palm populations and their environment in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Indian Ocean

Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 627-638

  Leach, B J ^a   Foale, M A ^b   Ashburner, G R ^c  

^a CSIRO ^*  (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c AGRICULTURE VICTORIA RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cocos nucifera; Diversity; Ecology; Evolution; Genetic resources; Germplasm

Indexed keywords

CROP IMPROVEMENT; CROP PLANT; GENETIC RESOURCE; GERMPLASM;

COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS;

COCOS; COCOS NUCIFERA;

EID: 0038041494     PISSN: 09259864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024493030687     Document Type: Article

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