Characterization of heterochromatic regions in 'Trovita' orange (Citrus sinensis Osbeck) chromosomes by the fluorescent staining and FISH methods

Genome

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 941-945

  Matsuyama, Tomoki ^a,e   Akihama, Tomoya ^a   Ito, Yuji ^b,f   Omura, Mitsuo ^c   Fukui, Kiichi ^d  

^a MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b National Institute of Fruit Tree Science   (Japan)

^c National Institute of Fruit Tree Science   (Japan)

^d Hokuriku Natl Agr Expt Stn   (Japan)

^e INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Citrus; CMA DAPI staining; FISH; heterochromatin; rDNA; telomere repeated sequence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030267584     PISSN: 08312796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/g96-118     Document Type: Article

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