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POLYPLOIDY IN SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIES OF ALOË
Author(s) -
Riley Herbert Parkes
Publication year - 1959
Publication title -
american journal of botany
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.218
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1537-2197
pISSN - 0002-9122
DOI - 10.1002/j.1537-2197.1959.tb06992.x
Subject(s) - biology , ploidy , chromosome , botany , chromosome number , b chromosome , karyotype , genetics , gene
R iley , H erbert P arkes (U. Kentucky, Lexington.) Polyploidy in South African species of Aloë. Amer. Jour. Bot. 46(2) : 126‐129. 1959.—Chromosomes were studied from 167 plants of 40 species of Aloë and from 1 unidentified plant; these include 40 plants of A. Davyana growing wild in the Transvaal. In all but 2 plants the diploid complement consisted of 8 long and 6 short chromosomes. The 2 plants of A. ciliaris which were studied were hexaploid with 42 somatic chromosomes. Chromosome counts include 12 species of Aloë from which chromosome numbers apparently had not been determined previously.