Isozyme variation and ploidy levels within the apomictic Ranunculus auricomus complex: Evidence for a sexual progenitor species in Southeastern Austria

Plant Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 53-62

  Horandl E ^a   Greilhuber, J ^a   Dobes C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Apomixis; Chromosome numbers; Feulgen densitometry; Hybridization; Isozymes; Phylogeny; Polyploidy; Ranunculus auricomus complex

Indexed keywords

ALLOENZYME; APOMIXIS; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIANCE; GENOTYPIC VARIATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HYBRID; PHENOTYPE; PLOIDY;

EMBRYOPHYTA; RANUNCULACEAE; RANUNCULUS AURICOMUS; RANUNCULUS NOTABILIS;

EID: 0342905087     PISSN: 14358603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2000-9148     Document Type: Article

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