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2020

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The Application of Flow Cytometry for Estimating Genome Size, Ploidy Level Endopolyploidy, and Reproductive Modes in Plants

Over the years, the amount of DNA in a nucleus (genome size) has been estimated using a variety of methods, but increasingly, flow cytometry (FCM) has become the method of choice. The popularity of this technique lies in the ease of sample preparation and in the large number of particles...

Pellicer, Jaume ; Powell, Robyn F. ; Leitch, Ilia J.
PI, Flow histogram, Plant nuclei isolation, C-value, Flow cytometry , Genome size, DNA ploidy level, DAPI, Endopolyploidy, Relative fluorescence , and Chromosome number