Assessment of genetic diversity in cultivars of white clover (Trifolium repens L.) detected by SSR polymorphisms

Genome

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 919-930

  George, Julie ^a,b   Dobrowolski, Mark P ^b,c   Van Zijll De Jong, Eline ^a,b   Cogan, Noel O I ^a,b   Smith, Kevin F ^b,c   Forster, John W ^a,b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Molecular Plant Breeding Cooperative Research Centre   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allotetraploid; Cluster analysis; Genetic diversity; Nonmetric multidimensional scaling; Polymorphism; Simple sequence repeat; White clover

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; CLOVER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PLANT; GENOTYPE; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TRIFOLIUM; VARIATION (GENETICS);

LOLIUM PERENNE; TRIFOLIUM REPENS;

EID: 33845427526     PISSN: 08312796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/G06-079     Document Type: Article

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