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Landraces of snake melon, an ancient Middle Eastern crop, reveal extensive morphological and DNA diversity for potential genetic improvement

BACKGROUND: Snake melon (Cucumis melo var. flexuosus, “Faqqous”) is a traditional and ancient vegetable in the Mediterranean area. A collection of landraces from 42 grower fields in Israel and Palestinian territories was grown and characterized in a “Common Garden” rain-fed experiment, at the morpho...

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Autores principales: Omari, Samer, Kamenir, Yuri, Benichou, Jennifer I. C., Pariente, Sarah, Sela, Hanan, Perl-Treves, Rafael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5966880/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29792158
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12863-018-0619-6