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CYTOLOGY OF HIBISCUS TRIONUM L. 1
Author(s) -
RAO L. N.
Publication year - 1941
Publication title -
new phytologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.742
H-Index - 244
eISSN - 1469-8137
pISSN - 0028-646X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8137.1941.tb07055.x
Subject(s) - citation , combinatorics , cytology , queen (butterfly) , mathematics , physics , library science , computer science , botany , biology , genetics , hymenoptera
The genus Hibiscus is closely related to Gossypium, both being included in the tribe Hibisceae. It has therefore been the subject of investigation by many cytologists, especially with a view to determining the chromosome number\udof its members. Very few species of Hibiscus have, however, been worked out in detail from a cytological point of view. The investigations carried out to date indicate that the members of the genus fall into several different series of chromosome numbers with different basic numbers (cf. Table i). Indeed, the genus appears to match Brassica in the diversity of its basic chromosome numbers. It was\udhoped that a closer study of one species might give some indication of the nature of the changes which may have contributed to this diversity