Spontaneous chromosome stickiness in microsporocytes of Centella asiatica (L.) urban (Umbelliferae)

Cytologia

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 57-61

  Consolaro, Márcia Edilaine Lopes ^a   Pagliarini, Maria Suely ^a  

^a State University Maringa   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Centella asiatica; Chromosome stickiness; Meiosis

Indexed keywords

APIACEAE; CENTELLA ASIATICA;

EID: 0002688514     PISSN: 00114545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1508/cytologia.61.57     Document Type: Article

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