Patterns of morphological variation in a sample of cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) germplasm from the International Cocoa Genebank, Trinidad

Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 933-948

  Bekele, Frances L ^a   Bekele, Isaac ^a   Butler, David R ^a   Bidaisee, Gillian G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Cacao; Descriptors; Genetic origin; Genetic resources; Morphological variation; Numerical taxonomy; Theobroma cacao L.

Indexed keywords

COCOA; GENETIC RESOURCE; GENETIC VARIATION; GERMPLASM; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; TAXONOMY;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LESSER ANTILLES; TRINIDAD [TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO]; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 33745066174     PISSN: 09259864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10722-004-6692-x     Document Type: Article

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