Development of a Marker-assisted Selection System for Columnar Growth Habit in Apple Breeding

Journal of the Japanese Society for Horticultural Science

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 279-287

  Moriya, Shigeki ^a   Iwanami, Hiroshi ^a   Kotoda, Nobuhiro ^a   Takahashi, Sae ^a   Yamamoto, Toshiya ^a   Abe, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FRUIT TREE SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Columnar type apple breeding; Linkage map; Malus; Simple sequence repeat

Indexed keywords

MALUS; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 68849131995     PISSN: 18823351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2503/jjshs1.78.279     Document Type: Article

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