Genetic relationship between cultivated and wild hazelnuts (Corylus avellana L.) collected in northern Spain

Plant Breeding

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 360-366

  Campa, Ana ^a   Trabanco, Noemí ^a   Pérez Vega, Elena ^a   Rovira, Mercé ^b   Ferreira, Juan J ^a  

^a Área de Cultivos Hortofrutícolas y Forestales   (Spain)

^b IRTA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Corylus avellana L.; Domestication; Genetic diversity; Microsatellite; Principal coordinate analysis

Indexed keywords

CORYLUS; CORYLUS AVELLANA;

EID: 79957900402     PISSN: 01799541     EISSN: 14390523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0523.2010.01835.x     Document Type: Article

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