Cytology of conifers. I

Abstract

The paper deals with a cytological study of forty-one conifer species belonging to fourteen geuera and distributed within the Abietaceae, Taxodiaceae and Cupressaceae. Observations have been made from the squashes of female gametophytes, stem apices, root-tips, young leaves and pollen mother cells. The cytological details of all these species are summarized in Table 1.