Focus on the Musa collection: Ploidy levels revealed

Kubaláková, Marie; Doležel, Jaroslav; Van den Houwe, I.; Roux, N.; Swennen, R.
INFOMUSA 14: 34-36, 2005

Keywords: Musa; ploidy; flow cytometry
Abstract: The ploidy levels of all the accessions of bananas in the world’s largest collection was measu-red. The International Musa Germplasm Collection is held at the INIBAP Transit Centre (ITC), which is hosted by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. The ITC currently stores 1175 accessions. The ploidy level of the 1150 accessions had been analysed using flow cytometry in the Laboratory of Molecular Cytogenetics and Cytometry at the Institute of Ex-perimental Botany in Czech Republic.
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IEB authors: Jaroslav Doležel