CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE IN A BACKCROSS PROGRAM BETWEEN A HEXAPLOID COTTON LINE AND TETRAPLOID COTTON (CYTOGENETICS).

A breeding program was begun to transfer the caducous bract trait from the wild cotton diploid species Gossypium armourianum Kearney (D genome, 2n = 26) to the cultivated tetraploid species G. hirsutum (AD genomes, 2n = 4x = 52). The sterile triploids were then doubled with colchicine to obtain fert...

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Main Author: SHERMAN, RICHARD ALAN.
Other Authors: Muramoto
Language:en
Published: The University of Arizona. 1986
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/183873
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/183873