Summarizing landmark research, Volume 2 of this essential series furnishes information on
the availability of germplasm resources that breeders can exploit for producing high-yielding …

This study reports the chromosome number and meiotic behavior of 24 populations
belonging to 16 species of Astragalus sect. Malacothrix from Iran. Thirteen populations …

Biology, cytogenetics, and breeding of Brachiaria Page 109 CHAPTER 5 Biology, Cytogenetics,
and Breeding of Brachiaria Cacilda Borges do Valle and Maria Suely Pagliarini CONTENTS 5.1 …

During cytological analysis of microsporogenesis in 28 polyploid accessions of Brachiaria
humidicola (Poaceae) from the Embrapa Beef Cattle germplasm collection for breeding …

Microsporogenesis was analyzed in five accessions of Brachiaria dictyoneura presenting x=
6 as the basic chromosome number. All accessions were tetraploid (2n= 4x= 24) with …

The African species Urochloa humidicola (Rendle) Morrone & Zuloaga (syn. Brachiaria
humidicola (Rendle) Schweick.) is an important perennial forage grass found throughout the …

Sexuality is correlated with diploidy and apomixis with polyploidy in the Brachiaria genus.
Brachiaria ruziziensis is a key species in Brachiaria breeding due to its obligate sexuality …

Microsporogenesis of several Brachiaria species of the Brazilian collection at Embrapa Beef
Cattle has been analyzed in detail. This paper reports abnormal cytokinesis in three …

With 2 figures and 1 table Abstract Brachiaria brizantha and Brachiaria decumbens
constitute the two most widely used tropical forage species for cultivated pastures and …

The meiotic behaviour of three three-way interspecific promising hybrids (H17, H27, and
H34) was evaluated. These hybrids resulted from the crosses between B. ruziziensis× B …