Genetic diversity among traditional Ethiopian highland maize accessions assessed by simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers

Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1579-1588

  Beyene, Yoseph ^a   Botha, Anna Maria ^a   Myburg, Alexander A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Clustering; Ethiopia; Genetic diversity; Highland maize; SSR; Zea mays

Indexed keywords

GENE FLOW; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; MAIZE; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; ETHIOPIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33845368065     PISSN: 09259864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10722-005-8509-y     Document Type: Article

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