Phenotypic diversity of plant morphological and root descriptor traits within a sweet potato, Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam., germplasm collection from Tanzania

Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 397-407

  Elameen, Abdelhameed ^a,b   Larsen, Arild ^c   Klemsdal, Sonja S ^a   Fjellheim, Siri ^b   Sundheim, Leif ^a   Msolla, Susan ^d   Masumba, Esther ^e   Rognli, Odd Arne ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c Graminor AS   (Norway)

^d SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

^e Sugarcane Research Institute   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Germplasm; Heritability; Ipomoea batatas; Morphological characters; Sweet potato

Indexed keywords

CASSAVA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GERMPLASM; HERITABILITY; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POTATO; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

KIBAHA; PWANI; TANZANIA;

IPOMOEA BATATAS; MANIHOT ESCULENTA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 79952703040     PISSN: 09259864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10722-010-9585-1     Document Type: Article

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