STUDIES OF MEIOSIS IN LUZULA PURPUREA

Abstract

HE species Luzula purpitren belongs to those plants which are con-T sidered to have diffuse or non-localized centromeres. It is a species very suitable for cytological studies as it has only six somatic chromosomes and, thus, only three bivalents at meiosis. Although meiosis of this species has been previously investigated (MALHERIROS, CASTRO and