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A Rapid Nigrosine Method for Chromosome Counts Applicable to Growing Plant Tissues

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For a plant-breeder dealing with plants which can be cross-fertilized who desires to work up polyploid material on a large scale, annual control of the purity of the polyploid stocks as regards chromosome number is necessary. A breeder of fruit and forest trees should also have at his command methods by which the chromosome numbers in new artificial or spontaneous crosses can be simply separated.

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VON ROSEN, G. A Rapid Nigrosine Method for Chromosome Counts Applicable to Growing Plant Tissues. Nature 160, 121–122 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160121b0

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