Use of SSR markers to assess sexual vs. apomictic origin and ploidy level of breeding progeny derived from crosses of apple proliferation-resistant Malus sieboldii and its hybrids with Malus × domestica cultivars

Plant Breeding

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 507-513

  Bisognin, C ^a   Seemuller E ^b   Citterio, S ^c   Velasco, R ^a   Grando, M S ^a   Jarausch, W ^d  

^a RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

^b Institute for Plant Protection in Fruit Crops and Viticulture   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^d RLP AgroScience   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apomixis; Apple; Candidatus phytoplasma mali; Flow cytometry; Polyploidy; Rootstock breeding; Simple sequence repeats

Indexed keywords

CANDIDATUS PHYTOPLASMA; CANDIDATUS PHYTOPLASMA MALI; MALUS; MALUS SIEBOLDII; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 70350440535     PISSN: 01799541     EISSN: 14390523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0523.2008.01614.x     Document Type: Article

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