Genetic diversity of Iranian soft-seed pomegranate genotypes as revealed by fluorescent-AFLP markers

Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 305-311

  Sarkhosh, Ali ^a   Zamani, Zabihollah ^a   Fatahi, Reza ^a   Hassani, Mohammad E ^b   Wiedow, Claudia ^c   Buck, Emily ^c   Gardiner, Susan E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Genetic discrimination; Polymorphism; Punica granatum L.; Seed softness

Indexed keywords

LYTHRACEAE; PUNICA GRANATUM;

EID: 79961165946     PISSN: 09715894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12298-011-0070-x     Document Type: Article

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