Quantitative genetic analysis of flowering time in tomato

Genome

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 303-315

  Jiménez Gómez, José M ^a,d   Alonso Blanco, Carlos ^a   Borja, Alicia ^b   Anastasio, Germán ^c   Angosto, Trinidad ^b   Lozano, Rafael ^b   Martínez Zapater, José M ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

^c Seminis   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Domestication; Flowering time; Quantitative trait loci; Tomato

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; FLOWER; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HYBRIDIZATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT CHROMOSOME; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SOLANUM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME; TOMATO;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; FLOWERS; GENETIC MARKERS; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SOLANUM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

LYCOPERSICON; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; SOLANUM;

EID: 34250369233     PISSN: 08312796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/G07-009     Document Type: Article

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