Molecular Cytogenetic Analysis of Deschampsia antarctica Desv. (Poaceae), Maritime Antarctic

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Amosova, Alexandra V., Bolsheva, Nadezhda L., Samatadze, Tatiana E., Twardovska, Maryana O., Zoshchuk, Svyatoslav A., Andreev, Igor O., Badaeva, Ekaterina D., Kunakh, Viktor A., Muravenko, Olga V.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2015
• Subjects: Research Article; Antarctic; Darboux; Darboux Island; Four Islands; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4578767/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26394331; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138878

Deschampsia antarctica Desv. (Poaceae) (2n = 26) is one of the two vascular plants adapted to the harshest environment of the Antarctic. Although the species is a valuable model for study of environmental stress tolerance in plants, its karyotype is still poorly investigated. We firstly conducted a...