Meiosis in polyploid plants

Polyploidy and Genome Evolution

Volumn 9783642314421, Issue , 2012, Pages 33-55

  Zielinski, Marie Luise ^a   Mittelsten Scheid, Ortrun ^a  

^a GREGOR MENDEL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT BIOLOGY   (Austria)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31442-1_3     Document Type: Chapter

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