Almond breeding

Plant Breeding Reviews

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 207-258

  Gradziel, Thomas M ^a   Martínez Gómez, Pedro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RESEARCH GROUP ON QUALITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amygdalus dulcis; Epigenetic; Genetic improvement; Hybridization; Molecular marker assisted selection; Nonadditive genetic variance; Prunus communis; Prunus dulcis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880836919     PISSN: 07302207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118497869.ch4     Document Type: Article

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