Tob. Sci., 1976, 20-14, p. 49-50, ISSN.0082-4523
Alkaloid levels of, and hornworm development on, multigenomic tobacco polyploids
Oxford Tobacco Research Laboratory, Southern Region, Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Depnrtment of Agriculture, Oxford, North Carolina USA; Departments of Genetics and Crop Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina USA
Multiplication of the N (normal alkaloid) genomes from a cultivated tobacco variety to form the triploid NNN or tetraploid NNNN resulted in an increase in percent total alkaloids over that produced by the diploid NN. The L (low alkaloid) genome,...