Genetic diversity in Tunisian Ceratonia siliqua L. (Caesalpinioideae) natural populations

Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1501-1511

  Makrem, Afif ^a   Najeh, Ben Fadhel ^a   Laarbi, Khoudja Mohamed ^b   Mohamed, Boussaïd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CARTHAGE   (Tunisia)

^b National Institute of Research in Agricultural Engineering Water and Forests   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Carob; Ceratonia siliqua; Conservation; Ecological group; Genetic structure; Isolation by distance; Isozyme polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ALLOZYME; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CONSERVATION STATUS; ECOLOGICAL ZONATION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENOTYPE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEMIARID REGION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TREE;

AFRICA; NORTH AFRICA; TUNISIA;

CAESALPINIOIDEAE; CERATONIA SILIQUA;

EID: 33750593370     PISSN: 09259864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10722-005-7761-5     Document Type: Article

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