Enhancing conservation and use of local vegetable landraces: The Almagro eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) case study

Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 787-795

  Hurtado, Maria ^a   Vilanova, Santiago ^a   Plazas, Mariola ^a   Gramazio, Pietro ^a   Andújar, Isabel ^a   Herraiz, F Javier ^a   Castro, Angel ^b   Prohens, Jaime ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b Asociación Para la Promoción de la I G P Berenjena de Almagro   (Spain)

Author keywords

Backcross breeding; Characterization; Diversity; Landrace; Markers; Phenolics; Selection; Solanum melongena

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION GENETICS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FRUIT; GENETIC MARKER; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHENOLIC COMPOUND; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SELECTION; VEGETABLE;

SOLANUM MELONGENA;

EID: 84896029902     PISSN: 09259864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10722-013-0073-2     Document Type: Article

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