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Meiotic behavior of a B-chromosome in Artemisia salsoloides Willd.: an important ethnomedicinal species of India

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Artemisia salsoloides Willd. popularly known as ‘Indian Wormwood’ is an aromatic shrub, growing throughout the hilly regions of India, upto an altitude of 3600 m. The species has been used ethnomedicinally by the natives since many centuries. Present investigation is based on cytological studies of two accessions. Of the two accessions, the one from Dhundhi (3050 m) exhibited the occurrence of one B chromosome bivalent at Metaphase-I stage of meiosis. Interestingly, the B chromosomes showed normal disjunction resulting into 10:10 distribution of chromosomes at Anaphase-I stage and consequently high pollen fertility. The species has been studied cytologically for the first time in India, and also presents a first report of B-chromosome for this species.

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The study was financially supported by UGC, New Delhi under DRS, SAP-I, II, III and DSA-I, II schemes, and by DBT, New Delhi under IPLS project (BT/PR4548/INF/22/146/2012) to the Department of Botany, Punjabi University, Patiala, and financial assistance with UGC-MANF fellowship to Maninder (Award letter no. F1-17.1/2011/MANF-SIK-HAR-4278/(SA-III/Website), and Multani Mal Modi College, Patiala for providing lab facilities.

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Maninder, Singhal, V.K. Meiotic behavior of a B-chromosome in Artemisia salsoloides Willd.: an important ethnomedicinal species of India. Nucleus (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13237-023-00432-8

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