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INVESTIGATIONS into the interspecific relations of Holcus lanatus and H. mollis have shown that their F1 hybrids are male-sterile, having only 1–20 per cent of stainable pollen. Chromosome counts have been made on twenty-three of these hybrids with the results given in Table 1.
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BEDDOWS, A., JONES, K. Chromosome Numbers in Holcus mollis. Nature 171, 938–939 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/171938a0
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