Cytometric determination of genome size and base composition of tree species of three genera of Casuarinaceae

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 18, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 346-349

  Schwencke, J ^a,c   Bureau, J M ^b   Crosnier, M T ^b   Brown, S ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Actinorhizal plants; Allocasuarina verticillata; Casuarina glauca; Frankia symbiosis; Gymnostoma deplancheana

Indexed keywords

BASE PAIRING; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FRANKIA; HAPLOIDY; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GENOME; SIZE;

ALLOCASUARINA VERTICILLATA; CASUARINA GLAUCA; CASUARINACEAE; EMBRYOPHYTA; FRANKIA; GYMNOSTOMA; GYMNOSTOMA DEPLANCHEANA; VERTICILLATA;

EID: 0032414107     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002990050584     Document Type: Article

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