Landscape management and domestication of Stenocereus pruinosus (Cactaceae) in the Tehuacán Valley: human guided selection and gene flow

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Parra, Fabiola ^a   Blancas, José J ^a   Casas, Alejandro ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ECOSISTEMAS Y SUSTENTABILIDAD   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Artificial selection; Columnar cacti; Domestication; Genetic resources conservation; Landscape management; Morphological variation; Stenocereus pruinosus

Indexed keywords

CACTACEAE; STENOCEREUS PRUINOSUS; STENOCEREUS STELLATUS;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CACTACEAE; COLOR; DIET; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; FRUIT; GENE FLOW; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MEXICO; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERCEPTION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT; PLANT SEED; POPULATION GENETICS; TASTE;

AGRICULTURE; BREEDING; CACTACEAE; COLOR; DIET; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FRUIT; GENE FLOW; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEXICO; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERCEPTION; PHENOTYPE; PLANTS, EDIBLE; SEEDS; TASTE;

EID: 84864911924     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4269-8-32     Document Type: Article

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