Prospects of polyploidizing cassava, Manihot esculenta Crantz, by unreduced microspores

Plant Breeding

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 195-197

  Nassar, N M A ^a   Freitas, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Interspecific hybrids; Manihot esculenta; Meiotic irregularity; Mutation

Indexed keywords

MANIHOT DICHOTOMA; MANIHOT ESCULENTA; MANIHOT GLAZIOVII;

EID: 0030740853     PISSN: 01799541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0523.1997.tb02179.x     Document Type: Article

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