Wild melon diversity in India (Punjab State)

Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 755-767

  Roy, Anamika ^a   Bal, S S ^a   Fergany, M ^b   Kaur, Sukhjeet ^a   Singh, Hira ^a   Malik, Ajaz A ^a   Singh, Jugpreet ^a   Monforte, A J ^b,c   Dhillon, N P S ^a,d  

^a PUNJAB AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c Universitat Politècnica de València   (Spain)

^d AVRDC THE WORLD VEGETABLE CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Acidity; Ascorbic acid; Carotenoids; Cucumis melo; Germplasm management; SSRs

Indexed keywords

ACIDITY; AGROECOLOGY; ASCORBIC ACID; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CAROTENOID; CROP YIELD; CULTIVAR; CULTIVATION; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; FRUIT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RESOURCE; GERMPLASM; MORPHOLOGY; NEMATODE; PEST RESISTANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WILD POPULATION;

INDIA; PUNJAB [INDIA];

CITRULLUS LANATUS; CUCUMIS; CUCUMIS MELO; MELOIDOGYNE INCOGNITA;

EID: 84861000478     PISSN: 09259864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10722-011-9716-3     Document Type: Article

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