Genetic relationships between some released and elite Ghanaian Cassava Cultivars based on distance Matrices

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 913-921

  Acquah, W Eric ^a   Quain, D Marian ^b   Twumasi, Peter ^a,c  

^a KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^b CSIR CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ghana)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cassava; DNA; Fingerprint; Maninhot esculenta; Molecular diversity; Selection of genotype; SSR markers

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; CASSAVA; CULTIVAR; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GHANA; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT;

MANIHOT ESCULENTA;

EID: 79751479243     PISSN: 16845315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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