Genome size variation in some cultivated and wild species of Chenopodium (Chenopodiaceae)

Caryologia

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 245-250

  Bhargava, Atul ^a   Shukla, Sudhir ^a   Ohri, Deepak ^a  

^a CSIR NATIONAL BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Chenopodium species; Genome size; Polyploidy; Systematics

Indexed keywords

ACER PENSYLVANICUM; AMARANTHACEAE; CHENOPODIUM; CHENOPODIUM ALBUM; CHENOPODIUM ARISTATUM; CHENOPODIUM QUINOA;

EID: 65149106243     PISSN: 00087114     EISSN: 21655391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00087114.2007.10797943     Document Type: Article

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