Cytophotometric estimation of nuclear DNA content and karyotype analysis of eight cultivars of Trigonella foenum-graecum

Cytobios

Volumn 1996, Issue 366-367, 1997, Pages 171-179

  Das, A B ^a   Pattnaik, M ^a   Thangaraj, T ^b   Das, P ^a  

^a Regional Plant Resource Centre India   (India)

^b TAMIL NADU AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Fenugreek; Genome length and genome volume; Karyotype; Nuclear DNA content; Trigonella

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038195935     PISSN: 00114529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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