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Pachytene variations in Ricinus

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The pachytene complement in microsporocytes was compared among ten races of Ricinus communis L., the castor plant (2n=20). Four kinds of pachytene variations were observed: (1) variation in degree of spreading of the chromosomes; (2) variation in degree of attenuation of heterochromatin; (3) variation in morphology, which appeared to be restricted to the two nucleolar organizing bivalents; (4) variation in frequency of association of each of these two bivalents with the nucleolus. It is suggested that variations in the pachytene chromosomes occur ubiquitously in this species.

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Paris, H.S. Pachytene variations in Ricinus. Genetica 55, 209–215 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00127204

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