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Haploids and polyhaploids in Ægilops and Triticum
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Haploids and polyhaploids in Ægilops and Triticum

  • Ralph Riley1 &
  • Victor Chapman1 

Heredity volume 11, pages 195–207 (1957)Cite this article

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Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Dr G. D. H. Bell for his interest in the work, and to Professor C. D. Darlington for advice on the presentation. Our thanks are due to Mrs K. M. Pauley who found the aneupolyhaploid during routine chromosome counting.

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Riley, R., Chapman, V. Haploids and polyhaploids in Ægilops and Triticum. Heredity 11, 195–207 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1957.17

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