Widespread Triploidy in Western North American Aspen (Populus tremuloides)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Mock, Karen E ^a   Callahan, Colin M ^a   Islam Faridi, M Nurul ^b   Shaw, John D ^c   Rai, Hardeep S ^a   Sanderson, Stewart C ^d   Rowe, Carol A ^a   Ryel, Ronald J ^a   Madritch, Michael D ^e   Gardner, Richard S ^a   Wolf, Paul G ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^d U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^e APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; CELL CLONE; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PERENNIAL PLANT; PLANT ECOLOGY; PLANT GENETICS; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TETRAPLOIDY; TRIPLOIDY;

MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; NORTH AMERICA; POPULUS; TRIPLOIDY;

POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 84868332175     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048406     Document Type: Article

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