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Published online 1 November 1956
Published in Agron J 48:505-507 (1956)
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Sterility in Pangolagrass (Digitaria decumbens Stent)1

Anilkumar A. Sheth, Lillian Yu and John Edwardson2

Synopsis: Pangolagrass is highly male-sterile because lagging chromosomes produce. unbalanced nuclei in the pollen. The grass is female-sterile because meiosis fails to progress past the leptotene stage. Only one plant produced by a Pangolagrass seed has been observed, clonal material from this plant contains 27 somatic chromosomes.

1 Contribution from the Department of Agronomy, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. Florida Agr. Exp. Sta. Journal Series, No. 500. Parts of two theses submitted to the University of Florida in partial fulfillment of requirements for M.S. degrees.

2 Formerly Graduate Assistant, Department of Agronomy, University of Florida, now Research Assistant Department of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin; former graduate student Department of Agronomy, University of Florida, now Research Assistant Department of Horticulture, Purdue University; and Assistant Agronomist and Assistant Professor of Agronomy, University of Florida.

Received for publication July 9, 1956.




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