Dioscorea alata L. is a highly important crop, widely distributed in the humid and semi-humid tropics. Flow cytometry was used to determine the ploidy levels of 74 D. alata genotypes collected mainly from West African countries. Sixty three of the genotypes were found to be tetraploid, one was he...
Obidiegwu, J.E.
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Rodríguez, E.
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Ene-Obong, E.E.
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Loureiro, J.
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Muoneke, C.
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Santos, C.
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Kolesnikova-Allen, M.
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Asiedu, Robert
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[Ploidy levels of Dioscorea alata L. germplasm determined by flow cytometry]
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Ploidy levels of Dioscorea alata L. germplasm determined by flow cytometry
The Guinea yams, Dioscorea cayenensis Lam. and D. rotundata Poir. (D. cayenensis–D. rotundata complex), represent a highly importantcrop, widely distributed in the humid and semi-humidtropics. The ploidy levels of 170 accessions of the core set of Guinea yams from West African coun...
Obidiegwu, J.E.
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Loureiro, J.
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Ene-Obong, E.E.
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Rodríguez, E.
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Kolesnikova-Allen, M.
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Santos, C.
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Muoneke, C.
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Asiedu, Robert
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[Ploidy level studies on the Dioscorea cayenensis/Dioscorea rotundata complex core set]
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Ploidy level studies on the Dioscorea cayenensis/Dioscorea rotundata complex core set
Atehnkeng, J.
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Nwigwe, C.
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Agbicodo, E.
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Opoku, A.
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Obidiegwu, J.E.
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Acha, I.
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[Sustainable agriculture in subSaharan Africa: a critical look into the contraints and prospects: proceedings of the 13th Annual Lecture/Symposium by IARSAF held on 13th February 2008, IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria]
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Sustainable agriculture in subSaharan Africa: a critical look into the contraints and prospects: proceedings of the 13th Annual Lecture/Symposium by IARSAF held on 13th February 2008, IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria
The genetic diversity of 219 accessions of Guinea yam germplasm from Benin, Congo, Côte d’ Ivoire,Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Togo was accessed using 15 microsatelliteloci. High diversity of 0.677 was found among the accessions. An allelic average of 8.06 andpolymor...
Nuclear DNA content of 54 accessions of 6 Dioscorea species collected from West African countries were determined using flow cytometry. Observed ploidy levels are diploid (2x), triploid (3x), tetraploid (4x), hexaploid (6x) and octoploid (8x). DNA index varied from 0.36 to 1.54 depending on the c...
Obidiegwu, J.E.
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Rodríguez, E.
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Ene-Obong, E.E.
,
Loureiro, J.
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Muoneke, C.O.
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Santos, C.
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Kolesnikova-Allen, M.
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Asiedu, Robert
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[Estimation of the nuclear DNA content in some representative of genus Dioscorea]
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Estimation of the nuclear DNA content in some representative of genus Dioscorea
A collection of 89 water yam (Dioscorea alata L.) accessions from Benin, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Togo was assessed for genetic diversity using thirteen microsatellite loci. These 89 are some of the D. alata accessions conserved by the Inte...
Obidiegwu, J.E.
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Asiedu, Robert
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Ene-Obong, E.E.
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Muoneke, C.O.
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Kolesnikova-Allen, M.
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[Genetic characterization of some water yam (Dioscorea alata L.) in West Africa with simple sequence repeats]
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Genetic characterization of some water yam (Dioscorea alata L.) in West Africa with simple sequence repeats