Melon landraces of India: Contributions and importance

Plant Breeding Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 85-150

  Dhillon, Narinder P S ^a,i   Monforte, Antonio J ^b   Pitrat, Michel ^c   Pandey, Sudhakar ^d   Singh, Praveen Kumar ^e   Reitsma, Kathleen R ^f   Garcia Mas, Jordi ^g   Sharma, Abhishek ^a   McCreight, James D ^h  

^a PUNJAB AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Universitat Politècnica de València   (Spain)

^c Researches Center of Avignon   (France)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF VEGETABLE RESEARCH   (India)

^e Indian Institute of Vegetable Research   (India)

^f IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g IRTA   (Spain)

^h AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

ⁱ AVRDC THE WORLD VEGETABLE CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Breeding; Cucumis melo; Flavor; Genetics; Host plant resistance; Molecular markers; Phytonutrient

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CUCUMIS; CUCUMIS MELO; GLINUS; HEXAPODA; NEMATODA;

EID: 84255174474     PISSN: 07302207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118100509.ch3     Document Type: Article

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