Diversity of the European indigenous wild apple Malus sylvestris (L.) Mill. in the East Ore Mountains (Osterzgebirge), Germany: I. Morphological characterization

Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1101-1114

  Reim, Stefanie ^a   Proft, Anke ^b   Heinz, Simone ^b   Höfer, Monika ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^b Green League Osterzgebirge eV   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Hybridization; Malus sylvestris; Morphology; Principal component analysis; Variability

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FLOWER; FRUIT; HYBRID; HYBRIDIZATION; MORPHOLOGY; NATIVE SPECIES; PRESERVATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RARE SPECIES; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VIABILITY; WILD POPULATION;

ERZGEBIRGE MOUNTAINS; GERMANY;

MALUS; MALUS FLORIBUNDA; MALUS ROBUSTA; MALUS SYLVESTRIS; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 84864740704     PISSN: 09259864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10722-011-9746-x     Document Type: Article

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