The Genetic Control of Senescence Revealed By Mapping Quantitative Trait Loci

Senescence Processes in Plants

Volumn 26, Issue , 2007, Pages 171-201

  Ougham, Helen ^a   Armstead, Ian ^a   Howarth, Catherine ^a   Galyuon, Isaac ^b   Donnison, Iain ^a   Thomas, Howard ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST   (Ghana)

Author keywords

DNA markers; Genetic mapping; Phenotypic characters; Plant senescence; Quantitative trait LOCI

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958168621     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470988855.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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