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Basic Chromosome Numbers in Silene and Saponaria

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DURING the course of a chromosome survey of the north-west Indian angiosperms, I have found two new basic numbers in the Caryophyllaceae of the Pan jab Plains.

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KHOSHOO, T. Basic Chromosome Numbers in Silene and Saponaria . Nature 186, 412–413 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/186412a0

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