Claim · model-written summary
Luffa cylindrica has chromosome number n = 13.
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Verbatim
e0“The chromosome numbers of 12 species of the Cucurbitaceae have been determined from pollen mother cell material”
e1“Luffa cylindrica, n = 13”
Title
Cytological and Phylogenetic Studies in the Cucurbitaceae
Thomas W. Whitaker Botanical Gazette 1933. doi:10.1086/334347
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- Observation Melothria abyssinica has chromosome number n = 12.
- Observation Momordica balsamina has chromosome number n = 11.
- Observation Ecballium elaterium has chromosome number n = 12.
- Observation Citrullus colocynthis has chromosome number n = 11.
- Observation Cucumis myriocarpus has chromosome number n = 12.
- Observation Cucumis melo var. Golden Beauty has chromosome number n = 12.
- Observation Benincasa cerifera has chromosome number n = 12.
- Observation Cucurbita melanosperma has chromosome number n = 20.
- Observation Cucurbita pepo var. Orange gourd has chromosome number n = 20.
- Observation Cyclanthera pedata has chromosome number n = 16.
- Observation Old World Cucurbitaceae genera, with one exception, have basic chromosome numbers of 11-13.
- Observation A New World group of Cucurbitaceae has basic chromosome number 16.
- Observation A second New World group of Cucurbitaceae has basic chromosome number 20-24.
- Observation Species crossing in Cucurbitaceae is comparatively rare.
- Observation Cucurbita moschata and C. maxima gave an interspecific cross.
- Observation Cucurbita pepo and C. moschata gave an interspecific cross.
- Observation Citrullus vulgaris and C. colocynthis gave an interspecific cross.