Cereal chromosome structure, evolution, and pairing

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 51, Issue , 2000, Pages 195-222

  Moore, Graham ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Centromeres; Gene order; Ph1 locus; Polyploidy; Telomeres

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034487302     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.51.1.195     Document Type: Article

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