Evolution of apocarpy in Alismatidae using phylogenetic evidence from chloroplast rbcL gene sequence data

Botanical Bulletin of Academia Sinica

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 33-40

  Chen, Jin Ming ^a   Chen, Dan ^a   Gituru, Wahiti Robert ^a,b   Wang, Qing Feng ^a   Guo, You Hao ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KENYATTA UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Alismatidae; Apocarpy; Basally connate carpels; RbcL gene; Single carpel; Syncarpy; Unicarpellate

Indexed keywords

ALISMATIDAE; EMBRYOPHYTA; LILIOPSIDA;

EID: 1242321993     PISSN: 00068063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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