Breeding for Fruit Quality in Melon

Breeding for Fruit Quality

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 261-278

  Fernández Trujillo, Juan Pablo ^a   Picó, Belén ^b   Garcia Mas, Jordi ^c   Álvarez, Jose María ^d   Monforte, Antonio J ^e  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^c CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN AGRICULTURAL GENOMICS CRAG   (Spain)

^d Agrifood Institute of Aragón IA2   (Spain)

^e CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biotechnology tools; Breeding; Fruit quality; Melon; Subspecific classification

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052458263     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470959350.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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