Genetic mapping of a major gene affecting onion bulb fructan content

Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 958-967

  McCallum, John ^a   Clarke, Andrew ^b   Pither Joyce, Meeghan ^a   Shaw, Martin ^a   Butler, Ruth ^a   Brash, Don ^a   Scheffer, John ^a   Sims, Ian ^c   Van Heusden, Sjaak ^d   Shigyo, Masayoshi ^e   Havey, Michael J ^f  

^a THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c CALLAGHAN INNOVATION   (New Zealand)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATES; GLUCOSE; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

CHROMOSOMAL REGION; PHENOTYPIC DIFFERENCES;

GENES;

FRUCTAN;

ARTICLE; BREEDING; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; ONION; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; STATISTICS;

BREEDING; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; FRUCTANS; GENETIC MARKERS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); ONIONS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; STATISTICS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ALLIUM CEPA;

EID: 33644760683     PISSN: 00405752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00122-005-0199-5     Document Type: Article

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