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CCDBAngiospermsRanunculaceaeNigellaNigella sativa L.

23 chromosome counts in Nigella sativa L.:


Name Accepted Name Gametophytic(n) Sporophytic(2n) Data Source reference
  Nigella sativa L. Nigella sativa L.   12 Flora Iberica Chromosome atlas of flowering plants. Darlintong, C. D. & A. P. Wylie.*(1955).
  Nigella sativa L. Nigella sativa L.   12 Flora Iberica Contribuiao ao conhecimento cariolgico do gnero Nigella L. Pereira, A.I Congr. Nac. Ci. Nat. Lisboa.(1941).
  Nigella cretica Mill. Nigella sativa L.   12 IPCN65 Strid 1965b
  Nigella sativa L. Nigella sativa L. 6 12 IPCN online DATTA, A. K. & A. K. Biswas. 1983. X-ray sensitivity in Nigella sativa L. Cytologia 48: 293–303.
  Nigella sativa L. Nigella sativa L.   12 IPCN online Das, M. N. & D. Dey. 1985. Pharmacognostic evaluation of Nigella sativa. Proc. Indian Sci. Congr. Assoc. 72(3–VI): 49.
  Nigella sativa L. Nigella sativa L. 6   IPCN online DATTA, A. K. & A. K. Biswas. 1985. Meiotic instability in the microsporocytes of an aberrant plant isolated from the mutant progeny of Nigella sativa L. Cytologia 50: 649–654.
  Nigella sativa L. Nigella sativa L.   12 IPCN online Corneanu, G. C., V. D. Simeanu, G. G. Popescu & F. Micle. 1985. Chorologic, karyologic and anatomical studies on Nigella L. genus (fam. Ranunculaceae) in Romania. Rev. Roumaine Biol., Sér. Biol. Vég. 30: 89–99.
  Nigella sativa L. Nigella sativa L.   12 IPCN online DATTA, A. K. & A. K. Biswas. 1983. Karyotype analysis in four Nigella species. Cell Chromosome Res. 6: 21–24.
  Nigella sativa L. Nigella sativa L.   12 IPCN online Maiti, S., K. Bose & A. K. Biswas. 1991. A comparative account of nuclear volume, DNA content mitotic cycle and karyotypic features in the control and early flowering mutant of Nigella sativa L. Proc. Indian Sci. Congr. Assoc. 78(3,VIII): 134.
  Nigella sativa L. Nigella sativa L.   12 IPCN online Mitra, P. K. & G. Bhowmik. 1996. Cytomorphological studies in some species of Nigella. J. Cytol. Genet. 31(2): 199–204.
  Nigella sativa L. Nigella sativa L.   12 IPCN online Mitra, P. K. & G. Bhowmik. 1996. Cytological abnormalities in Nigella sativa induced by gamma rays and EMS. J. Cytol. Genet. 31(2): 205–215.
  Nigella sativa L. Nigella sativa L.   12,24,36,48,60,96 IPCN online Chand, S. & S. C. Roy. 1980. Cytological abnormalities during culture of Nigella sativa. Protoplasma 104: 353–357.
  Nigella sativa L. Nigella sativa L.   12 IPCN online Ghosh. 2006. Karyotyping of Nigella sativa L. (black cumin) and Nigella damascena L. (love-in-a-mist) by image analyzing system. Cytologia 71(1): 1–4.
!   Nigella sativa L. Nigella sativa L.   12 IPCN online DATTA, A. K. & A. Saha. 2003. Cytomorphological studies and seed protein characterization of Nigella sativa L. and Nigella damascena L. Cytologia 68: 51–60.
!   Nigella sativa L. Nigella sativa L. 6   IPCN66 Kapoor 1966a
  Nigella sativa L. Nigella sativa L.   12 IPCN67-71 70-144
  Nigella sativa L. Nigella sativa L.   12 IPCN67-71 KURITA, M. 1957. Chromosome studies in Ranunculaceae IV. Karyotypes of the three genera, Paeonia, Nigella and Clematis. Rep. Biol. Inst. Ehime Univ. 2: 9-16.
!   Nigella sativa L. Nigella sativa L.   12 IPCN75-78 Mandal & Basu 1977
!   Nigella sativa L. Nigella sativa L.   12 Kumar, 1987 Hocquette, M. 1922 ; Langlet, O.F.J. 1927a, ,1932 ; Lewitsky, G .A. (Fedo- rov) ; Gregory, W.C. 1941 ; Pereira, A. de L. 1942 ; Kurita, M. 1957d ; Bhattacharyya, N.K. 1958b; Kapoor, B.M. 1966a ; Gilot-Delhalle, J. 1970; Gilot-De lhalle, J. et at. 1976
!   Nigella sativa L. Nigella sativa L.   24 Kumar, 1987 Biswas, A.K. & Chatterji, A.K. 1971
!   Nigella sativa L. Nigella sativa L.   12 Darlington, 1955 Gregory 1941
!   Nigella sativa L. Nigella sativa L.   12 C-values database Bennett MD, Smith JB. 1976. Nuclear DNA amounts in angiosperms. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 274: 227-274.
  Nigella sativa L. Nigella sativa L.   12 Cave1958 Bhattacharyya