Morphological variability in 17 wild elephant foot yam (Amorphophallus paeoniifolius) collections from southwest India

Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1263-1274

  Anil, Shirly Raichal ^a   Siril, E A ^a   Beevy, S Suhara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KERALA   (India)

Author keywords

Amorphophallus paeoniifolius; Genetic advance; Genotypic coefficient of variation; Multivariate analysis; Neglected and underutilized crops; Phenotypic coefficient of variation; Plant genetic resources; Wild accessions

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CULTIVAR; CULTIVATION; GENETIC RESOURCE; GENOTYPE; HEIGHT; HERB; HERITABILITY; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOTYPE; PHENOTYPE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SIZE; TUBER; WEIGHT; WILD POPULATION; YAM;

INDIA;

AMORPHOPHALLUS; AMORPHOPHALLUS PAEONIIFOLIUS; DIOSCOREA ALATA;

EID: 80054090185     PISSN: 09259864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10722-011-9752-z     Document Type: Article

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