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Acknowledgements.-My thanks to Mrs M. R. Meredith for maintaining the vegetative material and for her invaluable help; also to Professor H. Rees, Department of Agricultural Botany, UCW, Aberystwyth, for his critical reading of the manuscript.
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Thomas, H. The Giemsa C-Band karyotypes of six lolium species. Heredity 46, 263–267 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1981.33
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