The evolution of genome size variation in drumstick onions (Allium subgenus Melanocrommyum)

Systematic Botany

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 96-104

  Gurushidze, Maia ^a,b   Fuchs, Jörg ^a   Blattner, Frank R ^a  

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

^b Institute of Botany   (Georgia)

Author keywords

Allium subgenus Melanocrommyum; C value; cryptic species; evolution; flow cytometry; genome size; phylogeny; polyploidy

Indexed keywords

ALLIUM; ALLIUM CEPA; MELANOCROMMYUM;

EID: 84860135249     PISSN: 03636445     EISSN: 15482324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1600/036364412X616675     Document Type: Article

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