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  • Species - Brachypodium distachyon
  • Common Name - purple false brome
  • Family: Poaceae or Graminae -- Grass family
  • Subfamily: Pooideae
  • Tribe: Brachypodieae
  • *Genome Size 355
  • Chromosome number : 5
  • 2n = 2x = 10, 4x = 20, 6x = 30 polyploidy
  • Photosynthetic pathway: C3 (delta)


* Genome size from 1		    


Image Courtesy JE Dawson & SL Hatch

References:

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