Heritability and genetic variance estimates for fruit weight in watermelon

HortScience

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1332-1336

  Gusmini, Gabriele ^a   Wehner, Todd C ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Citrullus lanatus; Inheritance; Yield

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FRUITS;

CITRULLUS LANATUS; INHERITANCE; WATERMELON;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

CITRULLUS LANATUS; CITRULLUS LANATUS VAR. LANATUS;

EID: 34648836602     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.42.6.1332     Document Type: Article

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