Intrapopulation karyotypic variability in Allium roylei Stearn - A threatened species

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 242-248

  Sharma, Geeta ^a   Gohil, Ravinder N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAMMU   (India)

Author keywords

Heteromorphicity; Interchanges; Nucleolar chromosomes; Sterility; Structural chromosomal polymorphism

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENETIC VARIATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; INTRAPOPULATION VARIATION; KARYOTYPE; MONOCOTYLEDON; POLYMORPHISM; STERILITY; TRANSLOCATION; VEGETATIVE REPRODUCTION;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; JAMMU; JAMMU AND KASHMIR; SOUTH ASIA;

ALLIUM ROYLEI; ALLIUM SATIVUM;

EID: 52649162306     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: 10958339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2008.00862.x     Document Type: Article

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