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CCDB → Angiosperms → Solanaceae → Solanum → Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.

28 chromosome counts in Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.:


Name Accepted Name Gametophytic(n) Sporophytic(2n) Data Source reference
  Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. Solanum lycopersicum L.   24 Slovakia Database Májovský J. et al., 1978: Index of chromosome numbers of Slovakian flora (Part 6). - Acta Fac. Rerum Nat. Univ. Comen., Bot. 26: 1-42.
!   Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. Solanum lycopersicum L.   24 flora of NW Europe http://wbd.etibioinformatics.nl/bis/flora.php?selected=beschrijving&menuentry=soorten&id=3358
!   Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. Solanum lycopersicum L.   24 Flora Europaea Haskell, 1964
!   Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. Solanum lycopersicum L. 12   Goldberg, pers comm  
!   Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. Solanum lycopersicum L.   24, 48 IPCN online Govindarajan, T. & N. Vijayakumar. 1986. Cytotaxonomical studies of south Indian Solanum and Lycopersicum. J. Indian Bot. Soc. 66: 373–376.
!   Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. Solanum lycopersicum L.   24 IPCN online Stack, S. & L. Anderson. 1986. Two-dimensional spreads of synaptonemal complexes from solanaceous plants. III. Recombination nodules and crossing over in Lycopersicon esculentum (tomato). Chromosoma 94: 253–258.
!   Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. Solanum lycopersicum L. 12   IPCN online Bir, S. S., S. Kumari, S. P. Shoree & M. S. Sagoo. 1978. Cytological studies in certain Bicarpellatae from north and central India. J. Cytol. Genet. 13: 99–106.
!   Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. Solanum lycopersicum L.   24 IPCN online Huang, S. f., Z. f. Zhao, Z. y. Chen, S. j. Chen & X. x. Huang. 1989. Chromosome counts on one hundred species and infraspecific taxa. Acta Bot. Austro Sin. 5: 161–176.
!   Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. Solanum lycopersicum L.   24 IPCN online Carvalheira, G. M. G., M. Guerra, G. A. d. Santos, V. C. d. Andrade & M. C. A. d. Farias. 1991. Citogenética de angiospermas coletadas em Pernambuco---IV. Acta Bot. Brasil. 5(2): 37–51.
!   Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. Solanum lycopersicum L. 12   IPCN online Cawood, A.H. & J. K. Jones. 1980. Chromosome behaviour during meiotic prophase in the Solanaceae. Chromosoma 80: 57–68.
  Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. Solanum lycopersicum L. 12II 24 IPCN online Ugborogho, R. E. & E. O. Sodipo. 1985. Cytomorphological studies on Lycopersicum esculentum Miller complex (Solanaceae) in Nigeria. Bol. Soc. Brot. 58: 27–42.
  Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. Solanum lycopersicum L.   24-26 IPCN online Banks, P. 1984. A new diploid chromosome number for tomato Lycopersicon esculentum?. Canad. J. Genet. Cytol. 26: 636–639.
  Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. Solanum lycopersicum L.   24 IPCN online Wu, H. m., W. z. Lu, J. m. She & H. y. Zhou. 1993. Cytological analysis of F1 plants of tomato interspecific hybrid in vitro. Acta Genet. Sin. 20: 50–58.
  Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. Solanum lycopersicum L.   24 IPCN online Carvalheira, G. M. G., M. Guerra, G. A. d. Santos, V. C. d. Andrade & M. C. A. d. Farias. 1991. Citogenética de angiospermas coletadas em Pernambuco---IV. Acta Bot. Brasil. 5(2): 37–51.
  Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. Solanum lycopersicum L.   24 IPCN online Matsumoyo, A., S. Imanishi, M. Hossain, A. Escalante & H. Egashira. 1997. Fertile somatic hybrids between F1 (Lycopersicon esculentum @x L. peruvianum var. humifusum) and Solanum lycopersicoides. Breed. Sci. 47: 327–333.
  Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. Solanum lycopersicum L.   24 IPCN online Saravanakumar, K. 1998. Comparative cytomorphological studies on cultivated (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) and wild tomato. Proc. Indian Sci. Congr. Assoc. 85(4,A): 29–30.
!   Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. Solanum lycopersicum L.   24 IPCN online Strelnikova, S. P. 1999. Karyological study of tomatoes. Citologija 41(12): 1084–1085.
  Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. Solanum lycopersicum L. 12   IPCN67-71 BAQUAR, S.R. 1967. Cytomorphological studies in the family Solanaceae from West Pakistan. Genetica 38: 388-397
  Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. Solanum lycopersicum L. 12   IPCN67-71 TITU, H. 1966. studil microsporogenezei la haploidul de Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. Stud. si Cercet. Biol. Ser. Bot. 18: 455-460.
!   Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. Solanum lycopersicum L. 12 24 IPCN75-78 Levenko et al. 1977
  Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. Solanum lycopersicum L.   11 Kumar, 1987 Haploid Lindstrom, E.W. 1929
  Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. Solanum lycopersicum L.   23 Kumar, 1987 Ramanna, M.S. 1969 ; Ecochord, R. & Merkx, G. 1972
  Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. Solanum lycopersicum L.   24 Kumar, 1987 Humphrey, L.M. 1932, 1937; Afify, A. 1933b; Bhaduri, P.N. 1933 ; Lindstrom, E.W. & Humphrey, L.M. 1933 ; Luck- will, L.C. 1943 ; Barton, D.W. 1950; Rick, C.M. 1956a, b, 1960; Lima-de- Faria, A. & Sarvella, P. 1958; Lebedewa, N.A. (Fedorov); Haskell, G. 1964; Upadhya, M.D. & Majid, R. 1964; Titu, H. 1966; Baquar, S.R. 1967a; Bose, S. & Banerjee, B. 1968 ; Gill, B.S., Burnham, C.R. eta!. 1980
  Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. Solanum lycopersicum L.   24, 48 Kumar, 1987 Masubuchi, N. 1961
  Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. Solanum lycopersicum L.   25 Kumar, 1987 Chaney, L.A. & Reeves, A.F. 1973; Gill, B.S. 1978
  Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. Solanum lycopersicum L.   36 Kumar, 1987 Upcott, M. 1935
  Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. Solanum lycopersicum L.   48 Kumar, 1987 Morrison, J.W. & Rajbathy, T. 1960a; Gulcan, R. & Sybenga, J. 1967
!   Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. Solanum lycopersicum L. 12   Cave1956 Rick