A Schedule Including Cold Treatment to Facilitate Somatic Chromosome Counts in Certain Forage Grasses
- 1 January 1945
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Stain Technology
- Vol. 20 (3), 89-92
- https://doi.org/10.3109/10520294509107138
Abstract
Pretreatment at low temp. of root tips of grass grown from tillers in small beakers was found to contract somatic chromosomes and thus facilitate detn. of chromosome number. A modification of Randolph''s infiltration and card technics was employed. The method is descr.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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