Contents

#### **Preface** XIII


and Márcia Vanusa da Silva

#### X Contents

#### **Part 2 Genetic Diversity Analysis 131**

	- **Part 3 Conservation of Germplasms 311**

Chapter 19 **Founder Placement and Gene Dispersal Affect Population Growth and Genetic Diversity in Restoration Plantings of American Chestnut 375**  Yamini Kashimshetty, Melanie Simkins, Stephan Pelikan and Steven H. Rogstad

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**Part 2 Genetic Diversity Analysis 131**

Olawale Mashood Aliyu

Chapter 11 **Genetic Diversity in Citrus 213**

Chapter 13 **Genetic Diversity in Apricot 249**

Bryan Kindiger

and Mauricio Ulloa

C. O. Aremu

Chapter 14 **Sampling the Genetic Diversity of Tall** 

Chapter 15 **Genetic Diversity of Rice Grain Quality 285** 

Chapter 16 **Genetic Diversity in** *Gossypium* **genus 313** 

**Part 3 Conservation of Germplasms 311** 

Chapter 17 **Exploring Statistical Tools in Measuring** 

Peter Osobase Aikpokpodion

Aydin Uzun and Turgut Yesiloglu

**(***Solanum lycopersicum***) and Its Wild Relatives 133** 

*Theobroma cacao* **L. Grown in West and Central Africa 185** 

Guillaume Bauchet and Mathilde Causse

Chapter 10 **Defining Genetic Diversity in the Chocolate Tree,** 

Chapter 9 **Genetic Diversity of Nigerian Cashew Germplasm 163**

Chapter 12 **Determination of Genetic Variation Between Populations of**  *Abies nordmanniana* **subsp.** *bornmulleriana* **Mattf According to some Seed Characteristics 231** Hakan Sevik, Zeki Yahyaoglu and Ibrahim Turna

Kadir Ugurtan Yilmaz and Kahraman Gurcan

**Fescue Utilizing Gamete Selection 271** 

Rosa Paula Cuevas and Melissa A. Fitzgerald

Ibrokhim Y. Abdurakhmonov, Zabardast T. Buriev,

**Genetic Diversity for Crop Improvement 339**

Elena Artyukova, Marina Kozyrenko, Olga Koren, Alla Kholina, Olga Nakonechnaya and Yuri Zhuravlev

**the Range Margins of Some Far Eastern Species 349**

Chapter 18 **Living on the Edge: Various Modes of Persistence at**

Shukhrat E. Shermatov, Alisher A. Abdullaev, Khurshid Urmonov, Fakhriddin Kushanov, Sharof S. Egamberdiev, Umid Shapulatov, Abdusttor Abdukarimov, Sukumar Saha, Johnnie N. Jenkins, Russell J. Kohel, John Z. Yu, Alan E. Pepper, Siva P. Kumpatla

Chapter 8 **Genetic Diversity in Tomato** 

