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Developing core collections to optimize the management and the exploitation of diversity of the coffee Coffea canephora.
Genetica - 1 Jun 2014
Leroy Thierry, De Bellis Fabien, Legnate Hyacinthe, Musoli Pascal, Kalonji Adrien, Loor Solórzano Rey Gastón, Cubry Philippe
Abstract excerpt
The management of diversity for conservation and breeding is of great importance for all plant species and is particularly true in perennial species, such as the coffee Coffea canephora. This species exhibits a large genetic and phenotypic diversity with six different diversity groups. Large field collections are available in the Ivory Coast, Uganda and other Asian, American and African countries but are very...
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