Colchicine induced tetraploids in yellow-flowered cyclamens and their characteristics

Scientia Horticulturae

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 305-312

  Takamura, Takejiro ^a,b   Miyajima, Ikuo ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chalcone; Colchicine; Cyclamen; Polyploidization; Yellow flowered

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030221577     PISSN: 03044238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-4238(96)00896-5     Document Type: Article

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