Effect of colchicine on in vitro polyploidy induction in African marigold (Tagetes erecta)

Pakistan Journal of Botany

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1255-1258

  Sajjad, Yasar ^a   Jaskani, Muhammad Jafar ^a   Mehmood, Asim ^a   Ahmad, Iftikhar ^a   Abbas, Haider ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

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