A comparison of direct (flow cytometry) and indirect (stomatal guard cell lengths and chloroplast numbers) techniques as a measure of ploidy in black wattle, Acacia mearnsii (de Wild)

South African Journal of Botany

Volumn 71, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 354-358

  Beck, S L ^a   Visser, G ^b   Dunlop, R W ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR COMMERCIAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (South Africa)

^b Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Crops   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CHLOROPLAST; FLOW CYTOMETRY; PLOIDY;

ACACIA; ACACIA MEARNSII;

EID: 31944439462     PISSN: 02546299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0254-6299(15)30109-5     Document Type: Article

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