Relations between several traits linked to sexual plant reproduction in Theobroma cacao L.: Number of ovules per ovary, number of seeds per pod, and seed weight

Tree Genetics and Genomes

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 219-226

  Cilas, Christian ^a   Machado, Regina ^b   Motamayor, Juan Carlos ^c  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b MARS INC   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Domestication; Fruit traits; Heritability; Seed traits; Trait evolution

Indexed keywords

THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 75849157434     PISSN: 16142942     EISSN: 16142950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11295-009-0242-9     Document Type: Article

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