Modes of inheritance of two apomixis components, diplospory and parthenogenesis, in Chinese chive (Allium ramosum) revealed by analysis of the segregating population generated by back-crossing between amphimictic and apomictic diploids

Breeding Science

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 160-169

  Yamashita, Ken ichiro ^a   Nakazawa, Yoshiko ^b   Namai, Kiyoshi ^b   Amagai, Masayuki ^b   Tsukazaki, Hikaru ^a   Wako, Tadayuki ^a   Kojima, Akio ^a  

^a FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b Tochigi Prefectural Agricultural Experiment Station   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allium ramosum; Apomixis; Chinese chive; Diploid; Diplospory; Parthenogenesis; Triploid

Indexed keywords

ALLIUM; ALLIUM RAMOSUM; ALLIUM SCHOENOPRASUM;

EID: 84863474315     PISSN: 13447610     EISSN: 13473735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1270/jsbbs.62.160     Document Type: Article

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