Ploidy level determinations in buffalograss clones and populations

Crop Science

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 478-482

  Johnson, P G ^a   Riordan, T P ^a   Arumuganathan, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; BASE PAIRING; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CLONE; CULTIVAR; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEAT TOLERANCE; PLANT BREEDING; PLOIDY; TETRAPLOIDY;

BUCHLOE DACTYLOIDES;

EID: 0031812922     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci1998.0011183X003800020034x     Document Type: Article

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