Karyological and nuclear DNA variation in Iranian endemic muskmelon (Cucumis melo var. Inodorus)

Cytologia

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 451-461

  Karimzadeh, Ghasem ^a   Mousavi, Seyed Hossein ^a   Jafarkhani Kermani, Maryam ^b   Jalali Javaran, Mokhtar ^a  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF IRAN ABRII   (Iran)

Author keywords

Chromosome; Cucumis melo var. inodorus; DNA C value; Flow cytometry (FCM); Karyotype; Monoploid genome size

Indexed keywords

CUCUMIS; CUCUMIS MELO; CUCUMIS MELO VAR. INODORUS; CUCURBITACEAE; PETROSELINUM CRISPUM;

EID: 80052374278     PISSN: 00114545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1508/cytologia.75.451     Document Type: Article

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