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100 chromosome counts in Cichorium intybus L.:


Name Accepted Name Gametophytic(n) Sporophytic(2n) Data Source reference
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   /18+0-2B/ Slovakia Database Májovský J. et al., 1970b: Index of chromosome numbers of Slovakian flora Part 2. - Acta Fac. Rerum Nat. Univ. Comen., Bot. 18: 45-60.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18, 20 Slovakia Database Javorčíková D., 1970: B-chromosomes in Cichorium intybus L. from Slovak localities. - Acta Fac. Rerum Nat. Univ. Comen., Bot. 16: 73-76.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18, 20 Slovakia Database Javorčíková D., 1970: B-chromosomes in Cichorium intybus L. from Slovak localities. - Acta Fac. Rerum Nat. Univ. Comen., Bot. 16: 73-76.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 Slovakia Database Hindáková M., 2007: [New records in Anagallis and Cichorium], pp. 87, 194. - In: Marhold K., Mártonfi P., Mereďa P. jun., Mráz P. (eds), Chromosome number survey of the ferns and flowering plants of Slovakia. Veda, Bratislava.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 Slovakia Database Májovský J., Murín A., Feráková V., Hindáková M., Schwarzová T., Uhríková A., Váchová M. & Záborský J., 1987: Karyotaxonomický prehľad flóry Slovenska. Veda, Bratislava.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 IAPT/IOPB IAPT/IOPB Chromosome Data 8
!   Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 British Isles cytology Hollingsworth, P.M., Gornall, R.J., Bailey, J.P. Watsonia 19: 134-137 (1992)
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 Flora Iberica Chromosome numbers of vascular plants from Austria, Mallorca and Yugoslavia. Nilsson, O. & P. Lassen.Bot. Not.124: 270-276(1971).
!   Cichorium glabratum C. Presl Cichorium intybus L.   18 Flora Iberica Contribuiao para o conhecimento citotaxonmico das spermatophyta de Portugal. II. Compositae, supl. 1 Queirs, M.Bol. Soc. Brot. ser. 247: 299-314(1973).
!   Cichorium glabratum C. Presl Cichorium intybus L.   18 Flora Iberica Contribution la connaissance cytotaxinomique des spermatophyta du Portugal. II. Compositae Fernandes, A. & M. Queirs.Bol. Soc. Brot. ser. 245: 5-121(1971).
!   Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 flora of NW Europe http://wbd.etibioinformatics.nl/bis/flora.php?selected=beschrijving&menuentry=soorten&id=3885
!   Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 Poland Database Skali?ska M. et al. 1964. Additions to chromosome numbers of Polish Angiosperms (Fifth contribution). Acta Soc. Bot. Pol. 33, 45-76.
!   Cichorium intybus subsp. intybus Cichorium intybus L. 9II(1)   Asteracea Vuilleumier 1973 J. Arnold Arbor.
!   Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18(1) Asteracea Guedira et al. 1989 Canad. J. Bot. (= Botany)
  Cichorium intybus var. intybus Cichorium intybus L.   18(6) Asteracea Lovkvist ＆ H. 1999 Opera Bot.
!   Cichorium intybus var. glabratum (C. Presl) Gren. & Godr. Cichorium intybus L.   18(1) Asteracea Queiros 1973 Bol. Soc. Brot. (ser. 2), Coimbra
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L. 9(1)   Asteracea Watson 1973 Southw. Naturalist
!   Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L. 9   IPCN65 Mehra et al. 1965
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 IPCN online Sokolovskaya, A. P., N. S. Probatova & E. G. Rudyka. 1985. Chromosome numbers in the species of the families Asteraceae, Poaceae, Rosaceae from the Primorye Region, Kamchatka and Sakhalin. Bot. Zhurn. SSSR 70(1): 126–128.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 IPCN online Haque, M. S. & M. B. E. Godward. 1985. Comparison between two genera, species and cultivars in Lactuceae 1. Karyotype analysis. Cytologia 50: 725–738.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 IPCN online Haque, M. S. & M. B. E. Godward. 1986. Comparison between two genera, species and cultivars in Lactuceae III. DNA amount and radiosensitivity. Cytologia 51: 341–348.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 IPCN online Ma, X. H., R. L. Qin & W. B. Xing. 1984. Chromosome observations of some medical plants in Xinjiang. Acta Phytotax. Sin. 22: 243–249.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   16 IPCN online Dmitrieva, S. A. 1987. Kariologicheskaja kharakteristika nekotorykh predstaviteley sem. slozhnocvetnykh (Asteraceae Dumort.) flory Belorussii. Botanika (Minsk) 28: 23–33.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L. 9   IPCN online Mulligan, G. A. 1984. Chromosome numbers of some plants native and naturalized in Canada. Naturaliste Canad. 111: 447–449.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L. 9   IPCN online Ghaffari, S. M. 1989. Chromosome studies in Iranian Compositae. Iran. J. Bot. 4: 189–196.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L. 9   IPCN online Gupta, R. C. & B. S. Gill. 1989. Cytopalynology of north and central Indian Compositae. J. Cytol. Genet. 24: 96–105.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 IPCN online Krasnikov, A. A. & M. N. Lomonosova. 1990. Chromosome numbers in representatives of some families of vascular plants in the flora of the Novosibirsk region. I. Bot. Žhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 75: 116–118.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 IPCN online Lavrenko, A. N. & N. P. Serditov. 1991. Chromosome numbers in some plant species from the south-west of the Komi ASSR. Bot. Žhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 76: 769–771.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 IPCN online Hollingsworth, P. M., R. J. Gornall & J. P. Bailey. 1992. Contribution to a cytological catalogue of the British and Irish flora, 2. Watsonia 19: 134–137.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L. 9   IPCN online Razaq, Z. A., A. A. Vahidy & S. I. Ali. 1994. Chromosome numbers in Compositae from Pakistan. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 81: 800–808.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 IPCN online Dobea, C., B. Hahn & W. Morawetz. 1997. Chromosomenzahlen zur Gefässpflanzen-Flora Österreichs. Linzer Biol. Beitr. 29(1): 5–43.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 IPCN online Jav|0urková-Jarolímová, V. 1992. In J. M|3esí|3ccek & V. Jav@0urková-Jarolímová, List of Chromosome Numbers of the Czech Vascular Plants. Academia, Praha.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L. 9   IPCN online Khatoon, S. & S. I. Ali. 1993. Chromosome Atlas of the Angiosperms of Pakistan. Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Karachi.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L. 9   IPCN online Sidhu, M. K. 1979. Distributional and cytological studies of the weed flora of cultivable fields of Patiala district (Panjab). Ph.D. Thesis, Patiala. 1-230. 1979.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L. 9 18 IPCN online Bir, S. S. & M. Sidhu. 1980. Cyto-palynological studies on weed flora of cultivable lands of Patiala district (Punjab). J. Palynol. 16: 85–105.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L. 9 16 IPCN online Harriman, N. A. 1981. In Chromosome number reports LXX. Taxon 30: 77–78.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L. 9 18 IPCN online Bir, S. S. & M. Sidhu. 1979. Cytological observations in weed fiora of orchards of Paticla district, Punjab. Recent Res. Pl. Sci. (New Delhi). 7: 261–271.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L. 9   IPCN online Tomb, A. S., K. L. Chambers, D. W. KYHOS, A. M. Powell & P. H. RAVEN. 1978. Chromosome numbers in the Compositae XIV. Lactuceae. Amer. J. Bot. 65: 717–721.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18+0-2B IPCN online JAVORCIKOVA, D. & A. Murin. 1974. In Index to chromosome numbers of Slovakian flora. Part 4. Acta Fac. Rerum Nat. Univ. Comenianae, Bot. 23: 1–23.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 IPCN online Kliphuis, E. & Y. I. Barkoudah. 1977. Chromosome numbers in some Syrian angiosperms. Acta Bot. Neerl. 26: 239–249.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 IPCN online Nazarova. 2004. Pages 1--171 in Chromosome Numbers of Flowering Plants of Armenian Flora. Yerevan.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 IPCN online Pacheco. 2004. Números cromosómicos para la flora Española. 819--830. Lagascalia 24: 175–182.
  Cichorium intybus var. intybus Cichorium intybus L.   18 IPCN online Lövkvist, B. & U. M. Hultgård. 1999. Chromosome numbers in south Swedish vascular plants. Opera Bot. 137: 1–42.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 IPCN67-71 PODLECH, D., & A. DIETERLE. 1969. Chromosomenstudien an afghanischen Pflanzen. Candollea 24: 185-243.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18, 20 IPCN67-71 JAVORCIKOVA, D. 1970. B-chromosomes in Cichorium intybus L. from Slovak localities. Acta Fae. Rerum Nat. Univ. Comenianae Bot. 16: 73-76.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 IPCN67-71 KUZMANOV, B.A., & S.I. KOZUHAROV. 1970. In IOPB chromosome number reports XXVI. Taxon 19: 264-269.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   20 IPCN67-71 MAJOVSKY, J., ET. AL. 1970. Index of chromosome numbers of Slovakian flora. (Part 2). Acta Fae. Rerum Nat. Univ. Comenianae Bot. 18: 45-60.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 IPCN67-71 MURIN, A., & M.Y. SHEIKH. 1971. In IOPB chromosome reports XXXII. Taxon 20: 349-356.
!   Cichorium intybus var. glabratum (C. Presl) Gren. & Godr. Cichorium intybus L.   18 IPCN67-71 FERNANDES, A., & M. QUEIROS. 1971. Contribution a la connaissance cytotaxinomique des Spermatophyta du Portugal. II Compositae Bol. soc. Brot. 45 (ser. 2l: 5-122.
!   Cichorium intybus subsp. intybus Cichorium intybus L.   c.18 Love, 1948 Makowetsky 1929.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L. 9   IPCN73-74 WATSON, T.J., Jr. 1973. Chromosome numbers in Compositae from the southwestern United states. Southw. Naturalist 18: 117-124.
!   Cichorium intybus var. glabratum (C. Presl) Gren. & Godr. Cichorium intybus L.   18 IPCN73-74 QUEIROS, M. 1973. Contribuicao para o conhecimento citotaxonomico dJ spermatophyta de Portugal. 47(Ser. 2l: 299-314. II Compositae, supl. I Bol. Soc. Brot. I
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L. 9   IPCN73-74 KAUL, V., & D. SINGH. 1972. Cytological studies in some members of Cichorieae (Compositael. Proc. Indian Sci. Congr. Assoc. 59( III): 366.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 IPCN73-74 NILSSON, Q., & P. LASSEN. 1971. Chromosome numbers of vascular pla from Austria, Mallorca and Yugoslav1a. Bot. Not1ser 124: 270-276. I
!   Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 Kumar, 1987 Makoveltski, M. (Fedorov) ; Tischler, G. 1934; Delay, C. 1947; Heiser, C.B. & Whitaker, T.W. 1948 ; Singh, B. 1951; Rick, C.M. 1953; Stebbins, G. L. et al. 1953 ; Mehra, P.N. & Sidhu, S.S. 1960; Koul, M.L.H. 1964a ; Skalinska, M. et al. 1964 ; Mehra, P. N. et al. 1965 ; Podlech, D. & Dieterle, A. 1969 ; Kuzmanov, B.A. & Kozuha- rov, S. I. 1970; Murin, A. & Sheikh, M. Y. 1971 ; Kaul, V. & Singh, D. 1972 ; Remanandan, P. & Mehra, P.N. 1974; Kliphuis, E. 1977; Tomb, A.S. et al. 1978 ; Jansen, R.K. & Stuessy, T. F. 1980 ; Bir, S.S. & Sidhu, M. 1980; Van Loon, J. Chr. & Kieft, B. 1980
!   Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18, 20 Kumar, 1987 Javorcikova, D. 1970
!   Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   20 Kumar, 1987 Majovsky, J, et al. 1970b; Ferakova, V. 1972
!   Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 eFlora  
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 Fedorov, 1974 MaROBe~ 1929
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 Fedorov, 1974 Tischler 1934
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 Fedorov, 1974 Delay 1947
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 Fedorov, 1974 Heiser, Whitaker 1948
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 Fedorov, 1974 Singh B. 1951
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 Fedorov, 1974 Rick 1953
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 Fedorov, 1974 Stebbins et al. 1953
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 Fedorov, 1974 Koul M. L. 1964a
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 Fedorov, 1974 Skalinska et al. 1964
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 Fedorov, 1974 Mehra P. N. et al. 1965
!   Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 Darlington, 1955 Stebbins et al. 1953
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 IAPT/IOPB IAPT/IOPB Chromosome Data 17
!   Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   2n = 18 Austria_checklist Dobe?, Ch., Hahn, B., & Morawetz, W. 1997. Chromosomenzahlen zur Gef??pflanzen-Flora ?sterreichs. Linzer Biol.Beitr. 29[1], 5-43.
!   Cichorium intybus None Cichorium intybus L.   16 CromoCat 2015 Dmitrieva, S. A. (1987). Kariologicheskaja kharakteristika nekotorykh predstaviteley sem. slozhnocvetnykh (Asteraceae Dumort.) flory Belorussii. Botanika (Minsk) 28: 23-33.
!   Cichorium intybus None Cichorium intybus L.   18 CromoCat 2015 Dobeš, C., Hahn, B. & Morawetz, W. (1997). Chromosomenzahlen zur Gefässpflanzen-Flora Österreichs. Linzer Biol. Beitr. 29(1): 5-43.
!   Cichorium intybus None Cichorium intybus L.   18 CromoCat 2015 Gabrielan, E. & Zohary, D. (2004). Wild relatives of food crops native to Armenian and Nakhichevan Fl. Medit. 14: 5-80
!   Cichorium intybus None Cichorium intybus L.   18 CromoCat 2015 Kuzmanov, B. & Kozuharov, S. I. (1967). Karyotypes of four Bulgarian Compositae species. Compt. Rend. Acad. Bulg. Sci. 20: 469-472.
!   Cichorium intybus None Cichorium intybus L.   18 CromoCat 2015 Kuzmanov, B. (1975a). Karyological study of Bulgarian Compositae III. In: In honour acad. D. Jordanov : 49-69.
!   Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L. 0 18 CromoCat 2015 Provontova, N. S & Kazanovsky, S .G & Rudyka, E.G & Barkalov, V.Y & Seledets, V.P & Nechaev, V.A (2011). IAPT/IOPB Chromosome Data 12 Taxon 60:1790-1794
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L. 9   CromoCat 2015 Harriman, N. A. (1981a). Reports [In Löve, A. (ed.), IOPB chromosome numbers reports LXX]. Taxon 30(1): 77-78.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L. 9   CromoCat 2015 Mehra, P. N., B. S. Gill, J. K. Mehta & S. S. Sidhu. (1965a). Cytological investigations on the Indian Compositae. I. North Indian taxa. Caryologia 18: 35-68.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L. 9 0 CromoCat 2015 Razaq, Z. A., A. A. Vahidy & S. I. Ali. (1994). Chromosome numbers in Compositae from Pakistan. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 81: 800-808.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L. 0 16 CromoCat 2015 Harriman, N. A. (1981a). Reports [In Löve, A. (ed.), IOPB chromosome numbers reports LXX]. Taxon 30(1): 77-78.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L. 0 18 CromoCat 2015 Nazarova. (2004). Chromosome Numbers of Flowering Plants of Armenian Flora. 1-171 Yerevan
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L. 0 18 CromoCat 2015 Pacheco. (2004). Números cromosómicos para la flora Española. 819–830. Lagascalia 24: 175–182.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L. 0 18+0-2B CromoCat 2015 Javorcikova, D. & Murin, A. (1974). In Index to chromosome numbers of Slovakian flora. Part 4. Acta Fac. Rerum Nat. Univ. Comenianae, Bot. 23: 1–23.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 CromoCat 2015 Delay, C. (1947b). Recherches sur la structure des noyaux quiescents chez les Phanérogames. Rev. Cytol. et Cytophysiol. Vég. 10(1-4): 103-229.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 CromoCat 2015 Dujardin, M., Louant, B. P. & Tilquin, J. P. (1979). Détermination du caryogramme de Cichorium intybus L. Ann. Amélior. Plantes 29: 305-310.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 CromoCat 2015 Javorcikova, D. (1970). B-chromosomes in Cichorium intybus L. from Slovak localities. Acta Fac. Rerum Nat. Univ. Comenianae, Bot. 16: 73-76.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 CromoCat 2015 Kliphuis, E. (1977). Reports [In Löve, A. (ed.), IOPB chromosome numbers reports LVI]. Taxon 26(2/3): 267-268.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 CromoCat 2015 Kuzmanov, B. & Kozuharov, S. I. (1970). Reports [In Löve, A. (ed.), IOPB chromosome numbers reports XXVI]. Taxon 19(2): 265-266.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 CromoCat 2015 Loon van, J. C. & Kieft, B. (1980a). Reports [In Löve, A. (ed.), IOPB chromosome numbers reports LXVIII]. Taxon 29(4): 538-542. si
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 CromoCat 2015 Makowetzky, M. (1929). Karyologische Untersuchung von Helianthus tuberosus L., Helianthus annuus L. und Cichorium intybus L. Trud. Silsk. Gosp. Bot. Charkov 2: 211-218.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 CromoCat 2015 M?sí?ek J. et Jarolímová-Jav?rková V. (1992). List of chromosome numbers of the Czech vascular plants. Academia, Praha. p. 1-144.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 CromoCat 2015 Murín, A. & M. Y. Sheikh. (1971). Reports [In Löve, A. (ed.), IOPB chromosome numbers reports XXXII]. Taxon 20(2/3): 353.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 CromoCat 2015 Nilsson, Ö. & P. Lassen. (1971). Chromosome numbers of vascular plants from Austria, Mallorca and Yugoslavia. Bot. Not. 124(2): 270-276.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 CromoCat 2015 Podlech, D. & A. Dieterle. (1969). Chromosomenstudien an afghanischen Pflanzen. Candollea 24(2): 185-243.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 CromoCat 2015 Probatova, N.S., Seledets, V.P., Rudyka, E.G., Gnutikov, A.A., Kozhevnikova, Z.V. & Barkalov V.Y. (2009). IAPT/IOPB Chromosome Data 8 Taxon 58 (4): 1284-1288
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 CromoCat 2015 Sokolovskaya, A. P., N. S. Probatova & E. G. Rudyka. (1985). Chromosome numbers in the species of the families Asteraceae, Poaceae, Rosaceae from the Primorye region, Kamchatka and Sakhalin. Bot. Žurn. 70: 126-128.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   20 CromoCat 2015 Javorcikova, D. (1970). B-chromosomes in Cichorium intybus L. from Slovak localities. Acta Fac. Rerum Nat. Univ. Comenianae, Bot. 16: 73-76.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   20 CromoCat 2015 Uhríková, A. & A. Murín. (1970). Reports (In Májovsky, J. & al. (ed.), Index of chromosome numbers of slovakian flora. Part 2). Acta Fac. Rerum Nat. Univ. Comenianae, Bot. 18: 45-60.
  Cichorium intybus L. Cichorium intybus L.   18 IAPT/IOPB IAPT/IOPB Chromosome Data 20