Outcrossing between 'Bacon' pollinizers and adjacent 'Hass' avocado trees and the description of two new lethal mutants

HortScience

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1522-1526

  Schnell, Raymond J ^a   Tondo, Cecile L ^a   Steven Brown, J ^a   Kuhn, David N ^a   Ayala Silva, Tomás ^a   Borrone, James W ^b   Davenport, Thomas L ^c  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

California avocado; Microsatellite marker; Persea americana; Pollination; Progeny; Simple sequence repeat (SSR)

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; PERSEA AMERICANA;

EID: 70350151246     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.44.6.1522     Document Type: Article

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