Towards marker-assisted selection in pulses: A review

Plant Breeding

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 297-313

  Kumar, Jitendra ^a   Choudhary, Arbind K ^a   Solanki, Ramesh K ^a   Pratap, Aditya ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF PULSES RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Legumes; Mapping; Molecular breeding; Molecular markers

Indexed keywords

CAJANUS CAJAN; CICER ARIETINUM;

EID: 79957887475     PISSN: 01799541     EISSN: 14390523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0523.2011.01851.x     Document Type: Review

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