Apricot

Fruit Breeding

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 415-458

  Zhebentyayeva, Tatyana ^a   Ledbetter, Craig ^b   Burgos, Lorenzo ^c   Llácer, Gerardo ^d  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c RESEARCH GROUP ON QUALITY   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE INVESTIGACIONES AGRARIAS IVIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Breeding goals; Breeding methods; Centers of origin; Domestication; Eco geographical groups; Fruit quality; Genetic maps; Genomic resources; Inheritance; Marker assisted selection; Molecular markers; PPV resistance; Prunus armeniaca; Structural and functional genomics; Transgenics

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016648270     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0763-9_12     Document Type: Chapter

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