Chickpea

Genetic and Genomic Resources of Grain Legume Improvement

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 81-111

  Sharma, Shivali ^a   Upadhyaya, Hari D ^a   Roorkiwal, Manish ^a   Varshney, Rajeev K ^a   Gowda, C L Laxmipathi ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE SEMI ARID TROPICS ICRISAT   (India)

Author keywords

Chickpea; Cicer; Diversity; Genetic resources; Genomic resources; Germplasm

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900870451     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-397935-3.00004-9     Document Type: Chapter

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