Genome size in Sphagnum (peat moss)

Botanica Acta

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 325-330

  Temsch, Eva M ^a   Greilhuber, J ^a   Krisai, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bryophyta; Densitometry; Feulgen; Genome size; Image analysis; Polyploidy; Sphagnum

Indexed keywords

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; EMBRYOPHYTA; PISUM SATIVUM; PTERIDOPHYTA; SATIVUM; SPHAGNUM; SPHAGNUM PALUSTRE;

EID: 0031715360     PISSN: 09328629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1438-8677.1998.tb00716.x     Document Type: Article

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