Embryo development in crosses between diploid and tetraploid cyclamen (Cyclamen persicum Mill.)

Journal of the Japanese Society for Horticultural Science

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 113-120

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

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLAMEN; CYCLAMEN PERSICUM;

EID: 0030513955     PISSN: 18823351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2503/jjshs.65.113     Document Type: Article

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