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The paper deals with a cytological study of forty-one conifer species belonging to fourteen geuera and distributed within the Abietaceae, Taxodiaceae and Cupressaceae. Observations have been made from the squashes of female gametophytes, stem apices, root-tips, young leaves and pollen mother cells. The cytological details of all these species are summarized in Table 1.
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Mehra, P.N., Khoshoo, T.N. Cytology of conifers. I. J Genet 54, 165–180 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02981708
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