Heritability and genetic and phenotypic correlations of apple (malus x domestica) fruit volatiles in a genetically diverse breeding population

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 57, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 7944-7952

  Rowan, Daryl D ^a   Hunt, Martin B ^a   Alspach, Peter A ^a   Whitworth, Claire J ^a   Oraguzie, Nnadozie C ^a,b  

^a THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apple; Flavor volatiles; Genetic and phenotyplc correlations; Herltablllty; Malus domestica; Volatile profiling

Indexed keywords

VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

APPLE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CHEMISTRY; FRUIT; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; ODOR; PHENOTYPE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TASTE; VOLATILIZATION;

BREEDING; FRUIT; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENOTYPE; MALUS; ODORS; PHENOTYPE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TASTE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; VOLATILIZATION;

MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 69949172869     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf901359r     Document Type: Article

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