Organisation of the plant genome in chromosomes

Plant Journal

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 18-33

  Heslop Harrison, J S P ^a   Schwarzacher, Trude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

centromeres; chromosomes; cytogenetics; evolution; genome; genome size; heterochromatin; nucleus; plant breeding; polyploidy

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERES; CYTOGENETICS; EVOLUTION; GENOME; GENOME SIZE; HETEROCHROMATIN; NUCLEUS; PLANT BREEDING; POLYPLOIDY;

AGRICULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DNA; DNA SEQUENCES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PLANTS (BOTANY); RNA; TRANSCRIPTION;

GENES;

PLANT DNA;

ANEUPLOIDY; ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTROMERE; CHLOROPLAST GENOME; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HETEROCHROMATIN; INTERPHASE; KARYOTYPING; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENOME; POLYPLOIDY; TANDEM REPEAT; TELOMERE;

ANEUPLOIDY; ANGIOSPERMS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; DNA, PLANT; GENOME, CHLOROPLAST; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOME, PLANT; HETEROCHROMATIN; INTERPHASE; KARYOTYPING; POLYPLOIDY; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TELOMERE;

EID: 79953253529     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2011.04544.x     Document Type: Article

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