Cytological techniques to analyze meiosis in Arabidopsis arenosa for investigating adaptation to polyploidy

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 4, Issue JAN, 2014, Pages

  Higgins, James D ^a   Wright, Kevin M ^b   Bomblies, Kirsten ^b   Franklin, F Chris H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis arenosa; Cytology; Immunolocalization; Meiosis; Polyploidy; Recombination; Synaptonemal complex

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900868269     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2013.00546     Document Type: Article

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