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195 chromosome counts in Medicago sativa:


Name Accepted Name Gametophytic(n) Sporophytic(2n) Data Source reference
!   Medicago coerulea Ledeb. Medicago sativa subsp. microcarpa Urb.   16 IPCN online Agarwal, K. & P. K. Gupta. 1983. Cytological studies in the genus Medicago Linn. Cytologia 48: 781–793.
!   Medicago coerulea Ledeb. Medicago sativa subsp. microcarpa Urb.   16 IPCN66 McLennan et al. 1966
!   Medicago coerulea Ledeb. Medicago sativa subsp. microcarpa Urb.   16 IPCN73-74 CLEMENT, W.M., JR. 1962. Chromosome numbers and taxonomic relationships in Medicago. Crop Sci. (Madison) 2: 25-28.
!   Medicago coerulea Ledeb. Medicago sativa subsp. microcarpa Urb.   16 Fedorov, 1974 CHHCKaJI 1941, 1948, Fyfe 1957 (I. 1957) 20*
!   Medicago coerulea Ledeb. Medicago sativa subsp. microcarpa Urb.   16 Cave1957 Fyfe
!   Medicago hemicycla Grossh. Medicago sativa subsp. varia (Martyn) Arcang.   16 IPCN66 McLennan et al. 1966
  Medicago hemicycla Grossh. Medicago sativa subsp. varia (Martyn) Arcang.   32 IPCN73-74 CLEMENT, W.M., JR. 1962. Chromosome numbers and taxonomic relationships in Medicago. Crop Sci. (Madison) 2: 25-28.
  Medicago hemicycla Grossh. Medicago sativa subsp. varia (Martyn) Arcang.   16 Fedorov, 1974 CHHCKaH, MaJieesa 1959
  Medicago hemicycla Grossh. Medicago sativa subsp. varia (Martyn) Arcang.   16, 32 Fedorov, 1974 CHHCKaH 1941, 1948, 1950
  Medicago hemicycla Grossh. Medicago sativa subsp. varia (Martyn) Arcang.   32 Fedorov, 1974 Cooper D. C. 1935b, 1936a
!   Medicago lavrenkoi Vassilcz. Medicago sativa subsp. varia (Martyn) Arcang.   16 IPCN73-74 CLEMENT, W.M., JR. 1962. Chromosome numbers and taxonomic relationships in Medicago. Crop Sci. (Madison) 2: 25-28.
!   Medicago media Pers. Medicago sativa subsp. varia (Martyn) Arcang.   32 IPCN online Zhang, Z. p., L. h. Wu & Y. f. Kang. 1993. Analyses of karyotypes in four forage species of Medicago. Bot. Res 1: 55–59.
!   Medicago media Pers. Medicago sativa subsp. varia (Martyn) Arcang.   32+0-1B IPCN online Zhang, Z. p., L. h. Wu & Y. f. Kang. 1993. Analyses of karyotypes in four forage species of Medicago. Bot. Res 1: 55–59.
  Medicago media Pers. Medicago sativa subsp. varia (Martyn) Arcang.   32 Fedorov, 1974 Fryer 1930
!   Medicago media Pers. Medicago sativa subsp. varia (Martyn) Arcang.   32 Darlington, 1955 Fryer 1930
!   Medicago mesopotamica Vassilcz. Medicago sativa L.   32 IPCN73-74 CLEMENT, W.M., JR. 1962. Chromosome numbers and taxonomic relationships in Medicago. Crop Sci. (Madison) 2: 25-28.
!   Medicago mesopotamica Vassilcz. Medicago sativa L.   32 Fedorov, 1974 CnHCKaH 1950
!   Medicago orientalis Vassilcz. Medicago sativa L.   32 Fedorov, 1974 CHHCKaH 1950
!   Medicago praesativa Sinskaya Medicago sativa L.   32 Fedorov, 1974 CHHeKaH 1948, 1950
!   Medicago praesativa Sinskaya Medicago sativa L.   32 Fedorov, 1974 CHHeKaH, MueeBa 1959
!   Medicago sativa Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Fernandes, A. & Santos, M. F. (1971). Contribution à la connaissance cytotaxinomique des spermatophyta du Portugal. IV. Leguminosae. Bol. Soc. Brot. 45: 177-226.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CHROBASE GADELLA T.W.J., KLIPHUIS E. - 1970. Cytotaxonomic investigations in some Angiosperms collected in the valley of Aosta and in the National Park Gran Paradiso.. Caryologia , 23(3): 363-379.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CHROBASE MARIANI A. - 1963. Determinazione del numero cromosomico di alcune specie di Medicago con particolare riguardo alla Medicago tubercolata Willd.. Caryologia , 16(1): 139-142.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 Slovakia Database Májovský J. et al., 1970a: Index of chromosome numbers of Slovakian flora (Part 1). - Acta Fac. Rerum Nat. Univ. Comen., Bot. 16: 1-26.
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 British Isles cytology Hollingsworth, P.M., Gornall, R.J., Bailey, J.P. Watsonia 19: 134-137 (1992)
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 Flora Iberica Contribution la connaissance cytotaxinomique des spermatophyta du Portugal. IV. Leguminosae Fernandes, A. & M. F. Santos.Bol. Soc. Brot. ser. 245: 177-225(1971).
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   16, 32 flora of NW Europe http://wbd.etibioinformatics.nl/bis/flora.php?selected=beschrijving&menuentry=soorten&id=2948
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 flora of NW Europe http://wbd.etibioinformatics.nl/bis/flora.php?selected=beschrijving&menuentry=soorten&id=2949
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 Poland Database Pogan E., Czapik R. and Jankun A. et al. 1985. Further studies in chromosome numbers of Polish Angiosperms Part XVIII. Acta Biol. Cracov. Ser. Bot. 27, 57-74.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 IPCN online Schlarbaum, S. E. 1988. Characterization of somatic chromosome morphology in alfalfa, Medicago sativa L.: comparison of donor plant with regenerated protoclone. Cytologia 53: 499–507.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L. 16 32 IPCN online Agarwal, K. & P. K. Gupta. 1983. Cytological studies in the genus Medicago Linn. Cytologia 48: 781–793.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 IPCN online Pogan, E., R. CZAPIK & A. Jankun. 1985. Further studies in chromosome numbers of Polish angiosperms. Part XVIII. Acta Biol. Cracov., Ser. Bot. 27: 57–74.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 IPCN online Yang, G. f. & C. x. Zhao. 1986. Karyotype analysis of Medicago sativa's and Vicia villosa's chromosome. Grassl. China (2): 58–60.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L. 16   IPCN online Mulligan, G. A. 1984. Chromosome numbers of some plants native and naturalized in Canada. Naturaliste Canad. 111: 447–449.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 IPCN online Falistocco, E. 1987. Cytogenetic investigations and karyological relationships of two Medicago: M. sativa L. (alfalfa) and M. arborea L. Caryologia 40: 339–346.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L. 16   IPCN online Khatoon, S. & S. I. Ali. 1991. Chromosome numbers in subfamily Papilionoideae (Leguminosae) from Pakistan. Willdenowia 20: 159–165.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 IPCN online Zary, A. M. S. & M. C. M. Hickenbick. 1986. Estudos citogenéticos em "alfafa crioula" (Medicago sativa L.)---Leguminosae. Ci. & Cult. (Sao Paulo) 38: 940–941.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 IPCN online Zhu, B., K. Li & Y. Li. 1985. Karyotype analysis of 2 species of Medicago. Chin. Bull. Bot. 3(5): 47–49.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 IPCN online Yan, G. x., S. z. Zhang, J. f. Yan, X. q. Fu & L. y. Wang. 1989. Chromosome numbers and geographical distribution of 68 species of forage plants. Grassl. China 4: 53–60.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 IPCN online Okumura, K., T. Takai, M. Kanbe & M. Gau. 1995. Variations in pollen production and seed set of male sterile alfalfa somaclones. Breed. Sci. 45: 25–29.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L. 8, 16   IPCN online Jahan, B., A. A. Vahidy & S. I. Ali. 1994. Chromosome numbers in some taxa of Fabaceae mostly native to Pakistan. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 81: 792–799.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 IPCN online Zhang, Z. p., L. h. Wu & Y. f. Kang. 1993. Analyses of karyotypes in four forage species of Medicago. Bot. Res 1: 55–59.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 IPCN online Savova, D., P. R. A. Mazyad & F. Felber. 1996. Cytogeography of Medicago falcata L. and M. sativa L. in Switzerland. Bot. Helv. 106: 197–207.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L. 16ü 32ü16 IPCN online Strid, A. & R. Franzen. 1981. In Chromosome number reports LXXIII. Taxon 30: 829–842.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   48 IPCN online Mariani, A. 1975. Cytogenetic research on hexaploid alfalfa, Medicago sativa L. Caryologia 28: 359–373.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 IPCN online BHAUMIK, G. H. 1976a. Cytological investigations on some members of the tribe Trifolieae (family Papilionaceae). Sci. & Cult. 42: 322–324.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 IPCN online Uhrikova, A. 1978. In Index of chromosome numbers of Slovakian flora. Part 6. Acta Fac. Rerum Nat. Univ. Comenianae, Bot. 26: 1–42.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 IPCN online AL-MAYAH, A. R. A. & I. A. Al-Shehbaz. 1977. Chromosome numbers for some Leguminosae from Iraq. Bot. Not. 130: 437–440.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L. 8   IPCN online Gillies, C. B. 1977. Indentification of trisomics in diploid lucerne (Medicago sativa). Austral. J. Agric. Res. 28: 309–317.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 IPCN online Kliphuis, E. & Y. I. Barkoudah. 1977. Chromosome numbers in some Syrian angiosperms. Acta Bot. Neerl. 26: 239–249.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   16 IPCN online Nazarova. 2004. Pages 1--171 in Chromosome Numbers of Flowering Plants of Armenian Flora. Yerevan.
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 IPCN online Song, J. S., E. L. Sorensen & G. H. Liang. 1988. A new method to prepare root tip chromosomes in alfalfa. Cytologia 53: 641–645.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   16,32 IPCN66 McLennan et al. 1966
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 IPCN75-78 Kliphuis & Barkoudah 1977
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 IPCN75-78 Al-Mayah
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   48 IPCN75-78 Mariani 1975
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L. 8   IPCN75-78 Gillies 1977
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 IPCN75-78 Uhrikova 1978
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 IPCN75-78 Bhaumik 1976a
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   16, 32 IPCN73-74 CLEMENT, W.M., JR. 1962. Chromosome numbers and taxonomic relationships in Medicago. Crop Sci. (Madison) 2: 25-28.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   16 IPCN73-74 GILLIES, C.B. 1972. Pachytene chromosomes of perennial Medicago species II. Hereditas 72: 289-302.
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   16 Kumar, 1987 Bolton, I.L. & Greenshields, J .E.R. 1950 ; Roy, R.P. & Saran, J. 1960; Buss, G.R. & Cleveland, R.W. 1968a, b ; Gillies, C .B. 1968
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   16, 32 Kumar, 1987 Lesins, K. 1952, 1968 ; Obajimi, A.O. & Bingham, E.T. 1973
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 Kumar, 1987 Karpechimko (Fedorov) ; Ghimpu, V. 1928, 1929e, 1930 ; Fryer, J.R. 1930; Kawakami, I. 1930; Reeves, R.G. 1930; Tschechow, W.P. (Fedorov); Romanov, I.D. (Fedorov) ; Senn, H.A. 1938 ; Skovsted, A. 1939 ; Ledingham, G .F. 1940 ; Sinskaya, E.N. (Fedorov) ; Julen, G. 1944 ; Fyfe, J .L. 1957 ; l.esins, K. 1958 ; Sinskay & Maleeva (Fedorov) ; Palkova, M. 1959 ; Dalessandri, K. & Erbisch, F .H. 1967; Gadella, T.W.J. & Kliphuis, E. 1970a ; Gillies, C.B. 1970b ; Armstrong, K.C. 1971 ; Al-Mayah, A.-R.A. & Al-Shehbaz, I. 1977; Tomkins, D.J. & Grant, W.F. 1978
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32, 32+2B Kumar, 1987 Biswas, A.K. & Bhattacharyya, N.K. 1968
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32, 64 Kumar, 1987 Tome, G.A. 1947; Mariani, A. 1963
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   48 Kumar, 1987 Bingham, E.T. & Binek, A. 1969 ; Ciurdarescu, G. 1970; Mariani, A. 1975
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 Kumar, 1987 Bingham, E.T. & Binek, A. 1969
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40, 56 Kumar, 1987 Bingham, E.T. & Binek, A. 1969
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   33-65 Kumar, 1987 Sadasivaiah, R.S. & Lesins, K. 1974
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   24 Kumar, 1987 Binek, A & Bingham, E.T. 1970
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   28-40 Kumar, 1987 Binek, A. & Bingham, E.T. 1970
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   16 Fedorov, 1974 Bolton, Greenshields 1950
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   16, 32 Fedorov, 1974 Lesins K. 1952
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 Fedorov, 1974 Kapne'leHKo (T. 1927)
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 Fedorov, 1974 Ghimpu 1928, 1929e, 1930
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 Fedorov, 1974 Fryer 1930
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 Fedorov, 1974 Kawakami 1930 Reeves 1930 llexoB 1932
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 Fedorov, 1974 PoManenKo 1937
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 Fedorov, 1974 Senn 1938b
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 Fedorov, 1974 Skovsted 1939
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 Fedorov, 1974 Ledingham 1940
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 Fedorov, 1974 CHHCKaH 1941
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 Fedorov, 1974 Julen 1944
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 Fedorov, 1974 Fyfe 1957 (I. 1957)
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 Fedorov, 1974 Lesins K. 1958
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 Fedorov, 1974 CnncKaH, MaHeeBa 1959
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 Fedorov, 1974 Palkova 1959 (I. Slov. fl. I. 1967)
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32, 64 Fedorov, 1974 Tome 1947
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   16 Darlington, 1955 Bolton & G. 1950
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 Darlington, 1955 Fryer 1930
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32, 64 Darlington, 1955 Tome 1947
!   Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 Cave1958 Lesins 1958
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 Cave1963 Mariani 1963
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L. 8   CromoCat 2015 Gillies, C. B. (1968). The pachytene chromosomes of diploid Medicago sativa. Canad. J. Genet. Cytol. 10: 788-793.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L. 8   CromoCat 2015 Jahan, B., Vahidy, A. A. & Ali, S. I. (1994). Chromosome numbers in some taxa Fabaceae mostly native to Pakistan. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gar. 81:792-799
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L. 16ü   CromoCat 2015 Strid, A. & R. Franzén. (1981). Reports [In Löve, A. (ed.), IOPB chromosome numbers reports LXXIII]. Taxon 30(4): 829-842.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L. 16   CromoCat 2015 Agarwal, K. & Gupta, P. K. (1983a). Cytological studies in the genus Medicago Linn. Cytologia 48: 781-793.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L. 16   CromoCat 2015 Jahan, B., Vahidy, A. A. & Ali, S. I. (1994). Chromosome numbers in some taxa Fabaceae mostly native to Pakistan. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gar. 81:792-799
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L. 16   CromoCat 2015 Khatoon, S. & Ali, S. I. (1991). Chromosome numbers in subfamily Papilionoideae (Leguminosae) from Pakistan. Willdenowia 20: 159-165.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L. 16   CromoCat 2015 Mulligan, G. A. (1984). Chromosome numbers of some plants native and naturalized in Canada. Naturaliste Canad. 111: 447-449.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   16 CromoCat 2015 Gillies, C. B. (1972). Pachytene chromosomes of perennial Medicago species. II. Distantly related species whose karyotypes resemble M. sativa. Hereditas 72: 289-302.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   16 CromoCat 2015 Lesins, K. (1968). Interspecific crosses involving alfalfa. IV. Medicago glomerata x Medicago sativa with reference to M. prostrata. Canad. J. Genet. Cytol. 10: 536-544.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   16 CromoCat 2015 Magulaev, A. Y. (1980). Chromosome numbers of some Fabaceae in the north Caucasus. Bot. Žurn. 65: 836-843.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   16 CromoCat 2015 Nazarova. (2004). Chromosome Numbers of Flowering Plants of Armenian Flora. 1-171 Yerevan
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   16 CromoCat 2015 Small, E. & G. R. Bauchan. (1983). Chromosome numbers of the Medicago sativa complex in Turkey. Canad. J. Bot. 62: 749-752.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Cooper, D. C. (1935b). Macrosporogenesis and embryology of Medicago. J. Agric. Res. 51: 471-477.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Cooper, D. C. (1936a). Chromosome numbers in the Leguminosae. Amer. J. Bot. 23: 231-233.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Cooper, D. C. (1939). Artificial induction of polyploidy in alfalfa. Amer. J. Bot. 26: 65-67.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Cooper, D. C., Brink, R. A. & Albrecht, H. R. (1937). Embryo mortality in relation to seed formation in alfalfa (Medicago sativa). Amer. J. Bot. 24: 203-213.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Dalessandri, K. & Erbisch, F. H. (1967). The relationship of rhizobia in the nodule formation of Northwest Grimm alfalfa (Medicago sativa). Michigan Bot. 6: 179-183.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Elders, A. T. (1926). Some pollination and cytological studies of sweet clover Sci. Agr. 6: 360-365.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Evans, A. M. (1955). The production and identification of polyploids in red clover white clover and lucerne. New Phytol. 54: 149-162.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Fernandes, A. & França, F. (1975). Sur les nombres chromosomiques de quelques plantes du Mozambique. Revista Ci. Biol., Sér. A 7: 83-106.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Frandsen, K. J. (1945). Iagttagelser over polyploide Former av nogle Kulturplanter. Tidsskr. Planteavl 49: 445-496.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Fryer, J. R. (1930). Cytological studies in Medicago, Melilotus and Trigonella. Canad. J. Res. 3: 3-50.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Fyfe, J. L. (1957). Relational incompatibility in diploid and tetraploid lucerne. Heredity 11: 286.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Gadella, Th. W. J. & Kliphuis, E. (1970b). Cytotaxonomic investigations in some Angiosperms collected in the valley of Aosta and in the National Park "Gran Paradisio". Caryologia 23: 363-379.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Ghimpu, V. (1928). Contribution à l'étude caryologique de genre Medicago. Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris 187: 245-247.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Ghimpu, V. (1929c). Recherches chromosomiques sur les luzernes, vignes, chênes et orges. XIV Congr. Int. Agr. Bucarest, Actes 4: 557-563.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Ghimpu, V. (1929e). Sur la caryologie du genre Medicago. Bull. Agr. Roumania 10: 175-178.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Ghimpu, V. (1930). Recherches cytologiques sur les genres: Hordeum, Acacia, Medicago, Vitis et Quercus. Arch. Anat. Microsc. 26: 135-249.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Ghimpu, V. (1941). Sur les recherches caryologiques des plantes. Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Roumania 5: 88-95.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Grun, P. (1951b). Variations in the meiosis of alfalfa. Amer. J. Bot. 38: 475-482.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Julén, G. (1944). Investigations on diploid, triploid and tetraploid lucerne. Hereditas 30: 567-583.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Kawakami, I. (1930). Chromosome numbers in Leguminosae. Bot. Mag., Tokyo 44: 319-328.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Kliphuis, E. & Barkoudah, Y. I. (1977). Chromosome numbers in some Syrian Angiosperms. Acta Bot. Neerl. 26: 239-249.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Ledingham, G. F. (1940). Cytological and developmental studies of hybrids between Medicago sativa and a diploid form of M. falcata. Genetics 25: 1-15.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Lesins, K. (1952). Some data on the cytogenetics of alfalfa. J. Heredity 43: 287-291.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Lesins, K. (1954a). Procedure to facilitate chromosome counts in difficult plant material. Stain Tech. 29: 261-264.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Lesins, K. (1954b). Susceptibility of some diploid alfalfas to bacterial wilt. Agron. J. 46: 251-252.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Lesins, K. (1955). Techniques for rooting cutting, chromosome doubling and flower emasculation in alfalfa. Canad. J. Agr. Sci. 35: 58-67.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Lesins, K. (1956a). Interspecific hybrids between alfalfa, Medicago sativa L., and M. dzhawakhetica Bordz. Agron. J. 48: 583.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Lesins, K. (1956b). Somatic flower color mutations in alfalfa. J. Heredity 47: 171-179.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Lesins, K. (1957). Cytogenetic study on a tetraploid plant at the diploid chromosome level. Canad. J. Bot. 35: 181-196.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Lesins, K. (1958). Progenies from a cross Medicago dzhawakhetica x M. sativa. Proc. X Int. Congr. Genet. II: 165.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Lesins, K. (1968). Interspecific crosses involving alfalfa. IV. Medicago glomerata x Medicago sativa with reference to M. prostrata. Canad. J. Genet. Cytol. 10: 536-544.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Moriya, A. & A. Kondo. (1950b). Cytological studies of forage plants. II. Legumes. Jap. J. Genet. 25: 131-134.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Nilsson, F. & E. Andersson. (1941). Polyploidi hos släktet Medicago. Sv. Utsädesför. Tidskr. 1941: 363-382.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Nilsson, F. & E. Andersson. (1943). Polyploidy in the genus Medicago. Hereditas 29: 197-198.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Palková, M. (1959). Príspevokk cytologickym pomerom flóry okolia Bratislavy. Tesis Bratislava
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Pogan, E., R. Czapik & A. Jankun. (1985). Further studies in chromosome numbers of Polish Angiosperms. Part XVIII. Acta Biol. Cracov., Ser. Bot. 27: 57-74.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Pretel, A. (1976). Procedimiento para facilitar el estudio de cromosomas en materiales vegetales difíciles. Cuad. Ci. Biol. 5: 53-60.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Reeves, R. G. (1930). Nuclear and cytoplasmic division in the microsporogenesis of alfalfa. Amer. J. Bot. 17: 29-40.
  Medicago sativa L. Medicago sativa L.   32 CromoCat 2015 Romanenko, V. (1937). Zytologisch-embryologische studie über einige futterpflanzen aus der familie der leguminosen. Zur. Inst. Bot. Akad., Nauk URSR 11: 3-39.
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