Physical mapping of ribosomal DNA genes on Jatropha curcas chromosomes by multicolor FISH

Cytologia

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 133-139

  Witkowska, Magdalena ^a,b   Ohmido, Nobuko ^c   Joyce, Cartagena ^a   Nakako, Shibagaki ^a   Kajiyama, Shin'ichiro ^d   Fukui, Kiichi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chromosome; Jatropha curcas; Multicolor fluorescence in situ hybridization (McFISH); RDNAs

Indexed keywords

EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIACEAE; JATROPHA; JATROPHA CURCAS;

EID: 72549118574     PISSN: 00114545     EISSN: 00114545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1508/cytologia.74.133     Document Type: Article

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