Identification of Japanese and Chinese green tea cultivars by using simple sequence repeat markers to encourage proper labeling

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 15-20

  Ujihara, Tomomi ^a   Ohta, Ryusuke ^a   Hayashi, Nobuyuki ^a   Kohata, Katsunori ^a   Tanaka, Jun Ichi ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF VEGETABLE AND TEA SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries Research Council   (Japan)

Author keywords

Camellia sinensis; Cultivar identification; Fingerprinting; Green tea; Simple sequence repeat

Indexed keywords

BLOCK CODES;

CAMELLIA SINENSIS; CULTIVAR IDENTIFICATION; FINGERPRINTING; GREEN TEA; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS;

ARTICLE; CHINA; FOOD HANDLING; GENETICS; JAPAN; MEDICINAL PLANT; METHODOLOGY; TANDEM REPEAT; TEA;

CHINA; FOOD TECHNOLOGY; JAPAN; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TEA;

CAMELLIA SINENSIS;

EID: 58849161838     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.80248     Document Type: Article

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