The World Saffron and Crocus collection: Strategies for establishment, management, characterisation and utilisation

Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 125-137

  Fernández, José Antonio ^a   Santana, Omar ^b   Guardiola, José Luis ^c   Molina, Rosa Victoria ^c   Heslop Harrison, Pat ^d   Borbely, George ^e   Branca, Ferdinando ^f   Argento, Sergio ^f   Maloupa, Eleni ^g   Talou, Thierry ^h   Thiercelin, Jean Marie ⁱ   Gasimov, Khalil ^j   Vurdu, Hasan ^k   Roldán, Marta ^a   Santaella, Marcela ^a   Sanchís, Enrique ^c   García Luis, Amparo ^c   Suranyi, Gyula ^e   Molnár, Attila ^e   Sramko, Gabor ^e   Gulyas, Gergely ^e   Balazs, Luckacs ^e   Horvat, Orsolya ^e   Rodríguez, María Fernanda ^b   Sánchez Vioque, Raúl ^b   Escolano, Miguel Ángel ^b   Reina, José Vicente ^b   Krigas, Nikos ^g,m   Pastor, Teresa ^b   Renau Morata, Begoña ^c   Raynaud, Christine ^h   Ibadli, Oruc ^j   Polissiou, Moschos ^l   Tsimidou, Maria Z ^m   Tsaftaris, Athanasios ^m   Sharaf Eldin, Mahmoud ⁿ   Medina, Joaquin ^o   Constantinidis, Theophanis ^p   Karamplianis, Theophanis ^p   De Los Mozos Pascual, Marcelino ^b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b Centro de Investigación Agraria de Albaladejito Consejería de Agricultura de Castilla La Mancha   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^g INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

^h UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

ⁱ TRADIMPEX JM THIERCELIN SAS   (France)

^j INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Azerbaijan)

^k KASTAMONU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^l AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^m ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

ⁿ NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

^o ETSI MontesTechnical University of Madrid   (Spain)

^p UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

more..

Author keywords

Crop diversity; Database; Ex situ conservation; Genetic resources

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; DATABASE; EUROPEAN COMMISSION; EUROPEAN UNION; GENETIC RESOURCE; GENETIC VARIATION; GERMPLASM; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HERB; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WILD POPULATION;

SPAIN;

CROCUS; CROCUS SATIVUS;

EID: 79951558046     PISSN: 09259864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10722-010-9601-5     Document Type: Article

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