Somatic chromosome number and karyotype diversity in fifteen species of Mammillaria of the family Cactaceae

Cytobios

Volumn 1999, Issue 386, 1999, Pages 141-151

  Das, A B ^a   Mohanty, S ^a   Marrs, R H ^b   Das, P ^a  

^a Regional Plant Resource Centre India   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cactus; Chromosome number; Genome length and volume; Interphase nuclear volume; Karyotype

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038310853     PISSN: 00114529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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