Karyotypic studies in Iranian wild almond species

Caryologia

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 117-123

  Kazem, Yousefzadeh ^a   Houshmand, Saadallah ^a   Madani, Babak ^b   MartínezGómez, Pedro ^c  

^a SHAHREKORD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c RESEARCH GROUP ON QUALITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Almond; Breeding; Chromosome number; Germplasm; Karyotype; Prunus

Indexed keywords

PRUNUS; PRUNUS DULCIS; PRUNUS SCOPARIA; SCOPARIA;

EID: 78149459216     PISSN: 00087114     EISSN: 21655391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00087114.2010.10589716     Document Type: Article

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