Natural hybridisation in birch: Triploid hybrids between Betula nana and B. pubescens

Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 99-107

  Anamthawat Jónsson, Kesara ^a   Thórsson, Aegir Thór ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Betula; Birch; Cytogenetics; Fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH); Forest trees; Genomic in situ hybridisation (GISH); Hybrid introgression; Hybridisation; Molecular cytogenetics; Ribosomal genes

Indexed keywords

GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MORPHOLOGY; POPULATION STATISTICS;

NATURAL HYBRIDIZATION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BETULA; BETULA NANA; BETULA PUBESCENS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0042922717     PISSN: 01676857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025063123552     Document Type: Review

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