Breeding for Fruit Quality in Prunus

Breeding for Fruit Quality

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 201-229

  Infante, Rodrigo ^a   Martínez Gómez, Pedro ^b   Predieri, Stefano ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b RESEARCH GROUP ON QUALITY   (Spain)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fruit quality; Molecular breeding; Prunus; Quality fruit traits; Stone fruits

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871516124     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470959350.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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