Cannabis sativa L. - Botany and Biotechnology

17.3.3 Ploidy Level Determination by Fow Cytometry Figure17.3show the result offlow cytometry measurement with histogram and pla ...

tetraploid plants was significantly increased compared with diploid plants, but intercellular air space declined in these plants ...

Three months after germination, the plants began to blossom. On average, 72 percent of the tetraploid plants were female. Tetrap ...

Table 17.3 Comparison of some morphological and anatomical characteristics in pure diploid (2x) and tetraploid(4x) hemp plants. ...

Fig. 17.6 Comparison of leaves transverse section in tetraploid (a) and diploid (b) (10x, bar = 25μm) Fig. 17.7 Comparison of st ...

productive stage (Fig.17.9). The leaves of male tetraploid plants had lower content of THC, but the ones of female plants showed ...

leaves of tetraploid plants showed a two-fold increase. The protein content of roots did not show any significant change between ...

Putative tetraploid plants showed significant decrease in the amount of soluble sugars than diploid plants while the soluble sug ...

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Chapter 18 Classical and Molecular Cytogenetics ofCannabis Sativa L. Gennady I. Karlov, Olga V. Razumova, Oleg S. Alexandrov, Mi ...

the lack of heterochromatin banding (C-banding) and the limitation of the methods available to cytologists early to mid last cen ...

18.2 Classical Cytogenetic Study of Hemp Chromosomes Cytogenetic studies of hemp were evidently started in the 1920s and it is d ...

discussed sex determination mechanism in Cannabis. He believed that, despite the appropriateness of using the term“sex chromosom ...

18.3 Molecular Cytogenetics in Hemp The development offluorescentin situhybridization (FISH) techniques has made a huge contribu ...

short arm of submetacentric chromosome 9). Besides, the subtelomeric repeat CS-1 has also been localized. This repeat we isolate ...

attractive for molecular cytogenetic analysis of plant genomes organization. In many plants as well as in hemp, the pachytene ch ...

In general, it can be noted that pachytene chromosomes of hemp differ mor- phologically by well distinguishable heterochromatin ...

18.4 Conclusion In this chapter, an attempt has been made to provide an overview of the role of classical and molecular cytogene ...

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