Morphological diversity of bambara groundnut [Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.] landraces in Tanzania

Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 367-378

  Ntundu, W H ^a,b   Shillah, S A ^b   Marandu, W Y F ^b   Christiansen, J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b TROPICAL PESTICIDES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Bambara groundnut; Landraces; Morphological diversity; Multivariate analyses; Tanzania; Vigna subterranea

Indexed keywords

CROP IMPROVEMENT; GENETIC RESOURCE; GERMPLASM; GROUNDNUT; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA;

ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; BAMBARA; VIGNA SUBTERRANEA;

EID: 32544455275     PISSN: 09259864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10722-004-0580-2     Document Type: Article

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