Claim · model-written summary
The intermediate sex forms were phenotypically similar to Luffa forms and unstable.
- Taxon
- Momordica charantia
Momordica charantiat0 - Outcome
- intermediate sex forms are phenotypically, similar to those in the genus Luffa and are likewise unstablee0
- Comparator
- genus Luffae0
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Verbatim
e0“These intermediate sex forms are phenotypically, similar to those in the genus Luffa and are likewise unstable”
t0“Momordica charantia”
Title
Cytogenetics of Momordica charantia and its Polyploids
R. N. Trivedi; R. P. Roy CYTOLOGIA 1973. doi:10.1508/cytologia.38.317
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Observation Triploid M. charantia showed highly irregular meiosis with 5 to 11 bivalents and 0 to 6 univalents.
- Observation Triploid pollen fertility was 38.7%.
- Observation The triploid set no fruit.
- Intervention effect Colchicine-treated diploid variants expressed andromonoecious, gynoecious and trimonoecious sex forms.