Meiotic behavior, pollen fertility and seed production in Brazilian populations of Centella asiatica (L.) Urban (Umbelliferae)

Cytologia

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 375-381

  Lopes Consolaro, Márcia Edilaine ^a   Pagliarini, Maria Suely ^a   Chaves, Lázaro José ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APIACEAE; CENTELLA ASIATICA;

EID: 12644251036     PISSN: 00114545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1508/cytologia.61.375     Document Type: Article

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