Genetic diversity, conservation, and utilization of Theobroma cacao L.: Genetic resources in the Dominican Republic

Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 605-619

  Boza, Edward J ^a   Irish, Brian M ^b   Meerow, Alan W ^a   Tondo, Cecile L ^a   Rodríguez, Orlando A ^c   Ventura López, Marisol ^c   Gómez, Jaime A ^d   Moore, J Michael ^a   Zhang, Dapeng ^e   Motamayor, Juan Carlos ^a,f   Schnell, Raymond J ^a,f  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b USDA ARS Tropical Agriculture Research Station   (United States)

^c UASD   (Dominican Republic)

^d Confederación Nacional de Cacaocultores Dominicanos Inc (CONACADO) ^*  (Dominican Republic)

^e ARS Sustainable Perennial Crops Laboratory United States Department of Agriculture   (United States)

^f MARS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cacao improvement; Gene diversity; Genetic groups; Germplasm mislabeling; Theobroma cacao

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; ALLELE; BREEDING; CONSERVATION GENETICS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GENETIC RESOURCE; GENETIC VARIATION; GERMPLASM; POLYMORPHISM; POPULATION GENETICS;

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC;

THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 84873523176     PISSN: 09259864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10722-012-9860-4     Document Type: Article

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