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Developmentally regulated systemic endopolyploid in succulents with small genomes

E J De Rocher, K R Harkins, D W Galbraith

    Science (New York, N.Y.)
    |October 5, 1990
    PubMed
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    The ice plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum) shows multiple genome copies (ploidy levels) in all tissues. This multiploidy is tissue-specific and may be common in succulent Crassulacean acid metabolism plants.

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