Non-transmissibility of the Y chromosome through the female line in androhermaphrodite plants of Melandrium album

Heredity

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 576-583

  Janoušek, Bohuslav ^a   Grant, Sarah R ^b   Vyskot, Boris ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dioecious plants; Epimutation; Hermaphrodites; Melandrium album; Silene latifolia; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

ANDROHERMAPHRODITE PLANT; AZACITIDINE; GENE DELETION; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; KARYOTYPE; MEIOSIS; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GROWTH; POLLINATION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEED; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

MELANDRIUM ALBUM; SILENE LATIFOLIA;

EID: 2642704990     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2540.1998.00322.x     Document Type: Article

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