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The Chromosome Number in Dactylis Glomerata (Cocksfoot)

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IT is only recently that the attention of cytologists has been directed to the ascertaining of the chromosome number in the herbage grasses. In a letter to NATURE of Dec. 11 (vol. 118), p. 841, Mr. Gwilym Evans states that he has discovered the number in the Lolium spp. and has given a tentative estimate of the number in the two varieties of Festuca etatior.

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DAVIES, J. The Chromosome Number in Dactylis Glomerata (Cocksfoot). Nature 119, 236–237 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119236b0

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