DNA content of heterochromatin and euchromatin in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) pachytene chromosomes

Genome

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 77-82

  Peterson, Daniel G ^a   Price, H James ^b   Johnston, J Spencer ^b   Stack, Stephen M ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Euchromatin; Genome size; Heterochromatin; Lycopersicon esculentum; Pachytene chromosomes; Synaptonemal complex; Tomato

Indexed keywords

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 0030019545     PISSN: 08312796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/g96-011     Document Type: Article

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