Pattern of geographical variation in petal shape in wild populations of Primula sieboldii E. Morren

Plant Species Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 87-93

  Yoshioka, Yosuke ^a,d   Honjo, Masanori ^b   Iwata, Hiroyoshi ^c   Ninomiya, Seishi ^a,c   Ohsawa, Ryo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF VEGETABLE AND TEA SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elliptic Fourier descriptor; Floral variation; Geographical distribution; Principal components analysis

Indexed keywords

PRIMULA SIEBOLDII; PRIMULACEAE;

EID: 34347407581     PISSN: 0913557X     EISSN: 14421984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-1984.2007.00180.x     Document Type: Article

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