Biology and evolution of B chromosomes

Plant Genome Diversity

Volumn 2, Issue , 2013, Pages 149-165

  Houben, Andreas ^a   Banaei Moghaddam, Ali Mohammad ^a   Klemme, Sonja ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-1160-4_10     Document Type: Chapter

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