Genetic reticulation and interrelationships among citrullus species as revealed by joint analysis of shared AFLPs and species-specific SSR alleles

Plant Genetic Resources: Characterisation and Utilisation

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 16-25

  Nimmakayala, Padmavathi ^a   Tomason, Yan R ^a,b   Jeong, Jooha ^a   Ponniah, Sathish K ^a   Karunathilake, Anoji ^a   Levi, Amnon ^c   Perumal, Ramasamy ^d   Reddy, Umesh K ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DNIPRO STATE AGRARIAN AND ECONOMIC UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AFLP; Citrullus species; microsatellites; molecular phylogeny; watermelon

Indexed keywords

CITRULLUS; CITRULLUS COLOCYNTHIS; CITRULLUS LANATUS; CITRULLUS LANATUS VAR. CITROIDES; CITRULLUS LANATUS VAR. LANATUS; COLOCYNTHIS;

EID: 77954535215     PISSN: 14792621     EISSN: 1479263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1479262109990098     Document Type: Article

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