An Andean radiation: Polyploidy in the tree genus Polylepis (Rosaceae, Sanguisorbeae)

Plant Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 917-926

  Schmidt Lebuhn, A N ^a,b   Fuchs, J ^c   Hertel, D ^d   Hirsch, H ^a   Toivonen, J ^d,e   Kessler, M ^b  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cell size; Chromosome; Flow cytometry; Genome size; Guard cell size; Ploidy

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA;

ARTICLE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; KARYOTYPING; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT STOMA; POLYPLOIDY; ROSACEAE; SOUTH AMERICA; TREE;

CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; DNA, PLANT; KARYOTYPING; PLANT STOMATA; POLYPLOIDY; ROSACEAE; SOUTH AMERICA; TREES;

EID: 79952200839     PISSN: 14358603     EISSN: 14388677     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1438-8677.2009.00297.x     Document Type: Article

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