Chloroplast Microsatellite Primers for Cacao (Theobroma cacao) and other Malvaceae

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 98, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Yang, Ji Y ^a   Motilal, Lambert A ^b   Dempewolf, Hannes ^a   Maharaj, Kamaldeo ^c   Cronk, Q C B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^c Ministry of Agriculture   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Chloroplast haplotype; Chocolate; Malvaceae; Microsatellites; Theobroma cacao; Trinitario

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; PLANT DNA; PRIMER DNA;

CHLOROPLAST; CULTIVAR; EVERGREEN TREE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; HYBRID; POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CACAO; CHLOROPLAST; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; MALVACEAE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

ALLELES; CACAO; CHLOROPLASTS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PLANT; GENETIC LOCI; HAPLOTYPES; MALVACEAE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

MALVACEAE; THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 84863385319     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1100306     Document Type: Article

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