Population structure and phenotypic variation of a spring barley world collection set up for association studies

Plant Breeding

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 271-279

  Haseneyer, G ^a,e,f   Stracke, S ^e,g   Paul, C ^b   Einfeldt, C ^c   Broda, A ^d   Piepho, H P ^a   Graner, A ^e   Geiger, H H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^c Dr J Ackermann and Co   (Germany)

^d KWS LOCHOW GMBH ^*  (Germany)

^e LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Barley; Genetic diversity; Heritability; Hordeum vulgare; Population structure; SSR markers

Indexed keywords

HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE;

EID: 77954428343     PISSN: 01799541     EISSN: 14390523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0523.2009.01725.x     Document Type: Article

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