Pomegranate Biology And Biotechnology: A Review

Scientia Horticulturae

Volumn 160, Issue , 2013, Pages 85-107

  Teixeira da Silva, Jaime A ^a,b   Rana, Tikam Singh ^c   Narzary, Diganta ^d   Verma, Nidhi ^e   Meshram, Deodas Tarachand ^f   Ranade, Shirish A ^c  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Miki cho Post Office   (Japan)

^c CSIR NATIONAL BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^d GAUHATI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^e NATIONAL BUREAU OF PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES   (India)

^f ICAR National Research Centre on Pomegranate   (India)

Author keywords

Micropropagation; Phylogeny; Pomegranate; Punicaceae; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; FRUIT; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC RESOURCE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GERMPLASM; LITERATURE REVIEW; PHYLOGENY; PROPAGATION (HORTICULTURE); TAXONOMY;

CENTRAL ASIA;

EID: 84879536104     PISSN: 03044238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scienta.2013.05.017     Document Type: Review

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