A Flow Cytometry-Based Assessment of the Genomic Size and Ploidy Level of Wild Musa Species in India

• Published in: Plants (Basel) Vol. 12; no. 20; p. 3605
• Main Authors: Natarajan, Rithesh B., Pathania, Pooja, Singh, Hardeep, Agrawal, Anuradha, Subramani, Rajkumar
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 18.10.2023; MDPI
• Subjects: Banana; Bananas; Biological evolution; chromosome; Chromosome number; Chromosomes; Classification; Cloning; Comparative analysis; Correlation coefficient; Correlation coefficients; Crop improvement; Cultivars; cytogenetic analysis; Cytogenetics; Deoxyribonucleic acid; Diploids; diploidy; DNA; Environmental aspects; Evolution; Flow cytometry; Genera; Genetic aspects; Genetic diversity; genome size; Genomes; Genomics; India; Measurement; Methods; Musa; nuclear DNA; nuclear genome; Physiological aspects; Ploidy; protoplasts; Radishes; Raphanus sativus; seedless varieties; Species; Taxonomy; tetraploidy; triploidy; India; Southeast Asia
• ISSN: 2223-7747; 2223-7747
• DOI: 10.3390/plants12203605

The genome size variation is an important attribute in evolutionary and species characterization. Musa L. is regarded as one of the taxonomically complicated genera within the order Zingiberales, with more than 75 species from wild seeded to seedless cultivars that may be diploid, triploid or tetrap...