Meiotic behavior in nonaploid accessions of Brachiaria humidicola (Poaceae) and implications for breeding
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Meiotic behavior in nonaploid accessions of Brachiaria humidicola (Poaceae) and implications for breeding.
Brachiaria humidicola is a grass adapted to seasonally swampy grasslands in Africa; two cultivars, 'common' and Llanero, are widely used in Brazilian pastures. New cultivars are in great demand in order to diversify current production systems to achieve improved quality and yield. Cytological analyses of 55 accessions of this species available from the Embrapa Beef Cattle germplasm collection r...
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عنوان ژورنال: Genetics and Molecular Research
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1676-5680
DOI: 10.4238/vol10-1gmr990