Genetic identity and relationships of Iranian apple (Malus × domestica Borkh.) cultivars and landraces, wild Malus species and representative old apple cultivars based on simple sequence repeat (SSR) marker analysis

Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 829-842

  Gharghani, Ali ^a,b   Zamani, Zabihollah ^a   Talaie, Alireza ^a   Oraguzie, Nnadozie C ^c   Fatahi, Reza ^a   Hajnajari, Hassan ^d   Wiedow, Claudia ^e   Gardiner, Susan E ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SEED AND PLANT IMPROVEMENT INSTITUTE   (Iran)

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

Author keywords

Apple rootstock cultivars; Apple scion cultivars; Genetic diversity; Genetic relationship; Iranian apples; M. orientalis; M. sieversii; Malus spp; Microsatellite

Indexed keywords

CULTIVAR; DECIDUOUS TREE; DOMESTICATION; FRUIT; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; RELATEDNESS; ROOTSTOCK; WILD POPULATION;

MALUS; MALUS ORIENTALIS; MALUS SIEVERSII; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 70349985259     PISSN: 09259864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10722-008-9404-0     Document Type: Article

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