Thai elite cassava genetic diversity was fortuitously conserved through farming with different sets of varieties

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1463-1478

  Fu, Yong Bi ^a   Wangsomnuk, Preeya P ^b   Ruttawat, Benjawan ^b  

^a SASKATOON RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b Khon Kaen University   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Cassava; Genetic diversity; In situ conservation; Simple sequence repeat; Unregulated conservation system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939871810     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-014-0631-y     Document Type: Article

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