Nuclear DNA C-values for biodiversity screening: Case of the Lebanese flora

Plant Biosystems

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1228-1237

  Bou Dagher Kharrat, M ^a   Abdel Samad, N ^a,b   Douaihy, B ^a   Bourge, M ^c   Fridlender, A ^d   Siljak Yakovlev, S ^b   Brown, S C ^c  

^a SAINT JOSEPH UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DU VÉGÉTAL   (France)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Chromosome number; endemism; genome size; Lebanon; nuclear DNA C value; plant diversity; polyploidy

Indexed keywords

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EID: 84890796492     PISSN: 11263504     EISSN: 17245575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11263504.2013.861530     Document Type: Article

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