Advances in domestication of indigenous fruit trees in the West African Sahel

New Forests

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 297-315

  Ræbild, Anders ^a   Larsen, Anders Søndergård ^a   Jensen, Jan Svejgaard ^a   Ouedraogo, Moussa ^a,b   de Groote, Sitske ^c   van Damme, Patrick ^c   Bayala, Jules ^d   Diallo, Boukary Ousmane ^e   Sanou, Haby ^f   Kalinganire, Antoine ^d   Kjaer, Erik Dahl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE SEMENCES FORESTIÈRES   (Burkina Faso)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE SEMI ARID TROPICS ICRISAT   (Mali)

^e INSTITUT DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT ET DE RECHERCHES AGRICOLES   (Burkina Faso)

^f Institut d'Economie Rurale Mali   (Mali)

Author keywords

Adansonia digitata; Domestication; Parkia biglobosa; Tamarindus indica; Vitellaria paradoxa; Ziziphus mauritiana

Indexed keywords

ADANSONIA DIGITATA; DOMESTICATION; MAURITIANA; PARKIA BIGLOBOSA; TAMARINDUS INDICA; VITELLARIA PARADOXA;

CONSERVATION; ORCHARDS; PLANT EXTRACTS; RESEARCH;

FRUITS;

CONSERVATION STATUS; CROP YIELD; DICOTYLEDON; DOMESTICATION; EVERGREEN TREE; FOOD QUALITY; FRUIT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GERMPLASM; INCOME; LEGUME; NUTRITION; PLANT BREEDING; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; RESEARCH WORK; RURAL POPULATION; VEGETATIVE PROPAGATION;

SAHEL [SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA];

ADANSONIA; ADANSONIA DIGITATA; PARKIA BIGLOBOSA; TAMARINDUS INDICA; VITELLARIA PARADOXA; ZIZIPHUS; ZIZIPHUS MAURITIANA;

EID: 79956105259     PISSN: 01694286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11056-010-9237-5     Document Type: Article

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