Genetic properties of milk thistle ecotypes from Iran for morphological and flavonolignans characters

Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 3266-3271

  Shokrpour, Majid ^a   Moghaddam, Mohammad ^a   Mohammadi, Seyed Abolghasem ^a   Ziai, Seyed Ali ^b   Javanshir, Aziz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Genetic variation; MANOVA; Silybum marianum L.

Indexed keywords

SILYBUM MARIANUM;

EID: 35948964726     PISSN: 10288880     EISSN: 18125735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2007.3266.3271     Document Type: Article

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