Quantitative trait loci controlling cyanogenic glucoside and dry matter content in cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) roots

Hereditas

Volumn 144, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 129-136

  Balyejusa Kizito, Elizabeth ^a,b   Rönnberg Wästljung, Ann Christin ^a   Egwang, Thomas ^b   Gullberg, Urban ^a   Fregene, Martin ^c   Westerbergh, Anna ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b Med Biotech Laboratories Uganda   (Uganda)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE CIAT   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOGENIC GLYCOSIDE; GLUCOSIDE; MOLECULAR MARKER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CASSAVA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; CYANOGENESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOOD INDUSTRY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC REGULATION; HERITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLEIOTROPY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; TROPICS; VARIETAS;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; GLYCOSIDES; MANIHOT; PLANT ROOTS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

MANIHOT ESCULENTA;

EID: 34548793527     PISSN: 00180661     EISSN: 16015223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2007.0018-0661.01975.x     Document Type: Article

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