Genome size variation and polyploidy in the resurrection plant genus Ramonda: Cytogeography of living fossils

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 101-112

  Siljak Yakovlev, Sonja ^a   Stevanovic, Vladimir ^b   Tomasevic, Maja ^b   Brown, Spencer C ^c   Stevanovic, Branka ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DU VÉGÉTAL   (France)

Author keywords

Cytometry; Paleopolyploids; Ramonda; Resurrection plants; Sympatric populations; Tertiary relicts

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; CHROMOSOME; FOSSIL; GENOME; HYBRIDIZATION; POLYPLOIDY; POPULATION SIZE; REFUGIUM; TERTIARY;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA; RAMONDA; RAMONDA MYCONI; RAMONDA NATHALIAE; RAMONDA SERBICA; SELAGINELLA PILIFERA;

EID: 36649023518     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2007.07.017     Document Type: Article

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