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CCDB → Angiosperms → Leguminosae → Medicago → Medicago sativa subsp. falcata (L.) Arcang.

9 chromosome counts in Medicago sativa subsp. falcata (L.) Arcang.:


Name Accepted Name Gametophytic(n) Sporophytic(2n) Data Source reference
!   Medicago sativa subsp. falcata (L.) Arcang. Medicago falcata L.   16 CHROBASE BARCACCIA G., MAZZUCATO A., FALCINELLI M., VERONESI F. - 1996. Callose localization in cell walls during meiotic and apomeiotic megasporogenesis in diploid alfalfa.. Caryologia , 49(1): 45-56.
  Medicago sativa subsp. falcata (L.) Arcang. Medicago falcata L.   32 IPCN online Agarwal, K. & P. K. Gupta. 1983. Cytological studies in the genus Medicago Linn. Cytologia 48: 781–793.
  Medicago sativa subsp. falcata (L.) Arcang. Medicago falcata L.   16 IPCN online Small, E. & G. R. Bauchan. 1984. Chromosome numbers of the Medicago sativa complex in Turkey. Canad. J. Bot. 62: 749–752.
  Medicago sativa subsp. falcata (L.) Arcang. Medicago falcata L.   32 IPCN online Small, E. & G. R. Bauchan. 1984. Chromosome numbers of the Medicago sativa complex in Turkey. Canad. J. Bot. 62: 749–752.
  Medicago sativa subsp. falcata (L.) Arcang. Medicago falcata L.   32 IPCN online Lövkvist, B. & U. M. Hultgård. 1999. Chromosome numbers in south Swedish vascular plants. Opera Bot. 137: 1–42.
  Medicago sativa subsp. falcata (L.) Arcang. Medicago falcata L.   32 IPCN online Van Loon, J. C. & B. Kieft. 1980. In Chromosome number reports LXVIII. Taxon 29: 538–542.
  Medicago sativa subsp. falcata (L.) Arcang. Medicago falcata L.   32 IPCN online Fernandes, A., M. F. SANTOS & M. QUEIROS. 1977. Contribution à la connaissance cytotaxonomique des Spermatophyta de Portugal. Leguminosae. Bol. Soc. Brot., sér. 2 51: 137–186.
!   Medicago sativa subsp. falcata (L.) Arcang. Medicago falcata L.   32 Kumar, 1987 Van Loon, J. Chr. & Kieft, B. 1980
!   Medicago sativa subsp. falcata (L.) Arcang. Medicago falcata L.   16 C-values database Blondon F, Marie D, Brown S, Kondorosi A. 1994. Genome size and base composition in Medicago sativa and Medicago truncatula species. Genome 37: 264-270.