Quality oriented fruit breeding: Peach [Prunus persica (L.) Batsch]

Journal of Food, Agriculture and Environment

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 342-356

  Infante, R ^a   Martinez Gomez P ^b   Predieri, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b RESEARCH GROUP ON QUALITY   (Spain)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Consumers; Fruits; Genotypes; Marker assisted selection; Molecular markers; New cultivars; Peach; Quality; Sensory evaluation

Indexed keywords

PRUNUS; PRUNUS PERSICA;

EID: 52949150100     PISSN: 14590255     EISSN: 14590263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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