Interspecific variation in nuclear DNA content and chromosome analysis in Melocactus

Cytologia

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 239-247

  Das, A B ^a   Mohanty, S ^a   Das, P ^a  

^a Regional Plant Resource Centre India   (India)

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Indexed keywords

MELOCACTUS ALBICEPHALUS; MELOCACTUS BORHIDII; MELOCACTUS BREDOROOANUS; MELOCACTUS DOURADAENSIS; MELOCACTUS ERNESTII; MELOCACTUS LENSSELINKIANUS;

EID: 0031713931     PISSN: 00114545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1508/cytologia.63.239     Document Type: Article

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