Hybridization between diploid Centaurea pseudophrygia and tetraploid C.jacea (Asteraceae): The role of mixed pollination, unreduced gametes, and mentor effects

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 93-106

  Koutecký, Petr ^a   Baďurová, Tereza ^a   Štech, Milan ^a   Košnar, Jan ^a   Karásek, Jakub ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Flow cytometry; Polyploidy; Sexual polyploidization

Indexed keywords

DICOTYLEDON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GAMETE; HYBRID; HYBRIDIZATION; NEW RECORD; POLLINATION; POLYPLOIDY; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION;

ASTERACEAE; CENTAUREA; CENTAUREA PSEUDOPHRYGIA;

EID: 84860389739     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01707.x     Document Type: Article

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