Relationships of the woody Medicago species (section Dendrotelis) assessed by molecular cytogenetic analyses

Annals of Botany

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 15-22

  Rosato, Marcela ^a   Castro, Mercedes ^b   Rosselló, Josep A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

18S 5.8S 25 S; 5S; FISH mapping; GISH; M. citrina; M. strasseri; Medicago arborea; Polyploidy; rRNA genes

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CYTOGENETICS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; POLYPLOIDY; WOODY PLANT;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; MEDICAGO; METHODOLOGY; PLANT CHROMOSOME; POLYPLOIDY;

CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; DNA, PLANT; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MEDICAGO; POLYPLOIDY;

MEDICAGO; MEDICAGO ARBOREA; MEDICAGO CITRINA; MEDICAGO MARINA; MEDICAGO STRASSERI;

EID: 45949100642     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcn055     Document Type: Article

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