High amounts of nuclear DNA in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) pericarp

Plant Science

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 141-145

  Bergervoet, Jan H W ^a   Verhoeven, Harrie A ^a   Gilissen, Luud J W ^a   Bino, Raoul J ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

C values; Cell cycle; Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Flow cytometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002516064     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0168-9452(96)04383-X     Document Type: Article

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