Composition of Nuclear DNA in Cucumis species

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 10:4-6 (article 3) 1987 C. Ramachandran College of Horticulture, Kerala Agricultural University, Vellanikkara 680651, India R.K.J. Narayan Department of Agricultural Botany, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, U.K. The genus Cucumis comprises about thirty species of Asian and African origin. The diploid species are dibasic with haploid chromosome numbers, n=7 or n=12. […]

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A Giemsa C-banding Procedure for Cucumis Chromosomes

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 8:13-14 (Article 6) 1985 Ramachandran, C. Agricultural University, Wageningen, 6708 PM, The Netherlands The gene lists of different Cucumis species have been already compiled (3). However, the genes have not been assigned to any of the chromosomes, which are not distinguishable by normal staining procedures. Modern staining techniques like Giemsa C-banding […]

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Chiasma Frequency in Different Sex Forms of Muskmelon

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 6:54-56 (article 28) 1983 C. Ramachandran, V. S. Seshadri and R. A. Pai Divisions of Vegetable and Floriculture and Genetics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi-110 012- India The pairing behavior of chromosomes at meiosis is closely associated with recombination. Chiasma frequency is a cytological measure of such recombinations. The relationship […]

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