Germination differentiation patterns of wild and domesticated columnar cacti in a gradient of artificial selection intensity

Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 409-423

  Guillén, Susana ^a   Terrazas, Teresa ^b   de la Barrera, Erick ^a   Casas, Alejandro ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ECOSISTEMAS Y SUSTENTABILIDAD   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Artificial selection; Cactaceae; Domestication; Germination and crop evolution; Mesoamerica; Tehuac n Valley; Traditional management

Indexed keywords

CACTUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOMESTICATION; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; GERMINATION; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; SEED; SELECTION; SILVICULTURE; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE; WATER AVAILABILITY; WILD POPULATION;

MESOAMERICA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; PUEBLA [MEXICO]; TEHUACAN VALLEY;

CACTACEAE; ESCONTRIA CHIOTILLA; MYRTILLOCACTUS SCHENCKII; POLASKIA; POLASKIA CHICHIPE; STENOCEREUS PRUINOSUS;

EID: 79952738858     PISSN: 09259864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10722-010-9586-0     Document Type: Article

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