Assessment of genetic diversity in clover species from Sardinia, Italy, using AFLP analysis

Plant Breeding

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 362-367

  Bennett, S J ^a   Mathews, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

AFLP; Cluster analysis; Diversity; Ecogeographic distribution; Genetic variation; PCA; T. nigrescens; Trifolium glomeratum

Indexed keywords

EMBRYOPHYTA; OVIS ARIES; TRIFOLIUM; TRIFOLIUM GLOMERATUM; TRIFOLIUM NIGRESCENS;

EID: 0042853471     PISSN: 01799541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0523.2003.00860.x     Document Type: Article

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