Nuclear DNA content variation among central European Koeleria taxa

Annals of Botany

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 117-122

  Pecinka, Ales ^a,e   Suchánková, Pavla ^b   Lysak, Martin A ^c   Trávníček, Bohumil ^d   Doležel, Jaroslav ^b,d  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^c JODRELL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^e GREGOR MENDEL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT BIOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Chromosome number; Flow cytometry; Genome size variation; Grasses; Koeleria; Nuclear DNA content; Poaceae; Polyploidy

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA;

CHROMOSOME; DNA; EVOLUTION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; GRASS; POLYPLOIDY; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EUROPE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PLANT CHROMOSOME; POACEAE; POLYPLOIDY;

CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; DNA, PLANT; EUROPE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENOME, PLANT; POACEAE; POLYPLOIDY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

KOELERIA; KOELERIA MACRANTHA; KOELERIA PYRAMIDATA;

EID: 33745712936     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcl077     Document Type: Article

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