Genome size variation and basic chromosome number in pearl millet and fourteen related Pennisetum species

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 139-143

  Martel, E ^a   De Nay, D ^b   Siljak Yakovlev, S ^a   Brown, S ^b   Sarr, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREAL; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; EVOLUTION; GENOME; INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

PENNISETUM; PENNISETUM GLAUCUM;

EID: 0030903406     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a023072     Document Type: Article

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