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CCDB → Angiosperms → Malvaceae → Gossypium → Gossypium barbadense L.

11 chromosome counts in Gossypium barbadense L.:


Name Accepted Name Gametophytic(n) Sporophytic(2n) Data Source reference
  Gossypium barbadense L. Gossypium barbadense L.   52 IPCN online Tang, S. G. 1984. The genone pattern of Gossypium barbadense. China Cottons 11(2): 30–32. (In Chinese).
  Gossypium barbadense L. Gossypium barbadense L.   52 IPCN online Wang, Z. n., D. f. Ji & F. h. Xu. 1997. Comparative studies on the karyotypes of four cultivated species in Gossypium. Acta Agric. Univ. Zhejiang. 9(3): 135–139.
  Gossypium barbadense L. Gossypium barbadense L.   52 IPCN online Mehetre, S. S. & M. V. Thombre. 1981. Meiotic studies in the haploids (2n=2x=26) of the tetraploid cottons (2n=4x=52). Proc. Indian Acad. Sci., B 47: 516–518.
  Gossypium barbadense L. Gossypium barbadense L.   26 IPCN online Kadir, Z. B. A. 1976. DNA evolution in the genus Gossypium. Chromosoma 56: 85–94.
  Gossypium barbadense L. Gossypium barbadense L.   52 IPCN online Dhamayanthi, K. P. M. 2005. Karyomorphological analysis and phylogenetic relationship of Gossypium L. species. Cytologia 70: 421–425.
  Gossypium barbadense L. Gossypium barbadense L. 26   IPCN75-78 Malik 1976
!   Gossypium barbadense L. Gossypium barbadense L.   52 Kumar, 1987 Nikolaeva (Fedorov) ; Denham, H.J. 1924a,b ; Jaitsev, G.S. (Fedorov) ; Beal, J.M. 1928 ; Baranov, P. et al. (Fedorov) ; Nakatomi, S. 1931 ; Emme, H.K. (Fedorov); Longley, A.B. 1933 ; Skovsted, A. 1933, 1934a, 1935, 1937 ; Webber, J .M. 1934, 1935 ; Baranov, P. & Mikhailova, K. (Fedorov); Romanov, I. (Fedorov); Mauep, P.M. (Fedorov); Mikhailova, K.A. (Fedorov) ; Harland, S.C. 1940 ; Barrow, J.R. & Dunford, M.P. 1974
!   Gossypium barbadense L. Gossypium barbadense L.   52 Darlington, 1955 Webber 1934
!   Gossypium barbadense L. Gossypium barbadense L.   (104) Darlington, 1955  
!   Gossypium barbadense L. Gossypium barbadense L.   26 C-values database Hendrix B, Stewart JM. 2005. Estimation of the nuclear DNA content of Gossypium species. Annals of Botany 95: 789-797.
!   Gossypium barbadense L. Gossypium barbadense L.   52 C-values database Bennett MD, Smith JB, Heslop-Harrison JS. 1982. Nuclear DNA amounts in angiosperms. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 216: 179-199.