Effectiveness of colchicine and oryzalin at inducing polyploidy in Watsonia lepida N.E. Brown

HortScience

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2248-2251

  Ascough, Glendon D ^a   Van Staden, Johannes ^a   Erwin, John E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bugle lily; Chromosome doubling; Flow cytometry; Iridaceae; Mixoploid; Tetraploid

Indexed keywords

IRIDACEAE; LILIUM; WATSONIA; WATSONIA LEPIDA;

EID: 57049113269     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.43.7.2248     Document Type: Article

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