Prof. Itay Mayrose Lab – Plant Evolution, Bioinformatics, & Comparative Genomics
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CCDB → Angiosperms → Poaceae → Pennisetum → Pennisetum schweinfurthii Pilg.
3 chromosome counts in Pennisetum schweinfurthii Pilg.:
| Name | Accepted Name | Gametophytic(n) | Sporophytic(2n) | Data Source | reference | ||
| Pennisetum schweinfurthii Pilg. | Pennisetum schweinfurthii Pilg. | 14 | IPCN online | Rao, Y. S., S. A. Rao & M. H. Mengesha. 1989. New evidence on the phylogeny of basic chromosome number in Pennisetum. Curr. Sci. 58: 869–871. | |||
| Pennisetum schweinfurthii Pilg. | Pennisetum schweinfurthii Pilg. | 7II | 14 | IPCN online | Vidhya, K. & A. K. F. Khan. 2003. Hybrid between Pennisetum schweinfurthii and Napier Grass. Cytologia 68: 183–190. | ||
| ! | Pennisetum schweinfurthii Pilg. | Pennisetum schweinfurthii Pilg. | 14 | C-values database | Martel E, de Nay D, Šiljak-Yakovlev S, Brown S, Sarr A. 1997. Genome size variation and basic chromosome number in pearl millet and fourteen related Pennisetum species. Journal of Heredity 88: 139-143. |