Application of AFLP and GISH Techniques for Identification of Festuca Chromosome Segments Conferring Winter Hardiness in a Lolium perenne x Festuca pratensis Population

Euphytica

Volumn 213, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 81-86

  Grønnerød, Siri ^a   Fjellheim, Siri ^a   Humphreys, Michael W ^b   Østrem, Liv ^c   Canter, Peter H ^b   Grieg, Zanina ^a   Jørgensen, Øyvind ^a   Larsen, Arild ^d   Rognli, Odd Arne ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Norwegian Crop Research Institute   (Norway)

^d The Norwegian Crop Research Insitute   (Norway)

Author keywords

AFLP; Festuca; freezing tolerance; GISH; Lolium

Indexed keywords

EID: 85140438800     PISSN: 00142336     EISSN: 15735060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-2591-2_7     Document Type: Article

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