A warning at the beginning.The following text will be a horror for normal daffodil freaks. It is for younger hybridizers only, perhaps up to an age of 80, because the results of the remarks in form of nice daffodils can be seen…
Category: Cytology
This is about the study of narcissus cells and includes chromosome work, molecular genetics, biochemistry, pollen size and shape, etc,.
Plant lectins
From a 2007 article: Multiplicity of carbohydrate-binding sites in â-prism fold lectins: occurrence and possible evolutionary implications ALOK SHARMA, DIVYA CHANDRAN, DESH D SINGH and M VIJAYAN* Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India *Corresponding author…
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pics of lback spots
THanks for the black spot pictures. I did not realize many had them ( what percentage roughly from the large daffodils?) One can now wonder what character is connected with this black spot on the chromosome that has been selected…
N jonquilla s.l. versus assoanus
I like to point out that whereas the “jonquilla group” has about 32 pg of nuclear DNA, N assoanus has only 19 pg so there is a big difference. That is why I placed them in different sections. I just…
DNA amounts of all narcissi
I like to let you know that my article where in I measured nuclear DNA content of all species of narcissi from nearly 400 accessions, has been accepted and is in press in thre journal ” Plant systematics and Evolution”