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Chromosome Diminution in a Plant

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THE genus Sorghum consists of two groups. Eu-Sorghum includes the tetraploid millet species and an octoploid fodder species1. Para-Sorghum includes only diploid species (n = 5) which are not cultivated. One of these is S. purpureo-sericeum, from the Sudan, in which I have described plants with varying numbers of extra chromosomes. These chromosomes I supposed to be inert2.

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JANAKI-AMMAL, E. Chromosome Diminution in a Plant. Nature 146, 839–840 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146839a0

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