Current challenges of tropical tree crop improvement: Integrating genomics into an applied cacao breeding program

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 738, Issue , 2007, Pages 129-144

  Schnell, R J ^a   Brown, J S ^a   Kuhn, D N ^a   Cervantes Martinez, C ^a   Borrone, J W ^a   Olano, C T ^a   Motamayor, J C ^b   Lopes, U ^c   Phillips, W ^d   Johnson, E ^d   Monteverde Penso, E J ^d   Amores, F ^e  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b Mars Inc   (United States)

^c Centro de Pesquisas do Cacau Comissão Executiva Plano da Lavoura Cacaueira   (Brazil)

^d CATIE   (Costa Rica)

^e Pichilingue (EET)   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Linkage mapping; MAS; Molecular markers; QTL; Theobroma cacao

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 35348834351     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2007.738.11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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