Table 5.
The relationship between mean genome size (amount of 2C DNA divided by ploidy level) and ploidy level in species from nine genera of Poaceae from New Zealand that have a range of ploidy levels
| Ploidy |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genus |
2x |
4x |
6x |
8x |
10x |
12x |
14x |
16x |
38x |
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| Agrostis | – | – | 1·80 | – | – | 1·79 | – | – | – | ||||||||
| Deyeuxia | – | 3·25 | – | 1·75 | 1·45 | – | – | – | – | ||||||||
| Elymus | – | 5·14 | 4·55 | 4·01 | – | – | – | – | – | ||||||||
| Festuca | – | – | 2·74 | 2·58 | – | – | – | – | – | ||||||||
| Hierochloe | – | 3·14 | 3·02 | – | – | 2·40 | – | – | – | ||||||||
| Lachnagrostis | – | – | – | 1·91 | – | 2·07 | 1·76 | – | – | ||||||||
| Poa | – | 1·44 | – | – | – | 1·23 | – | 1·17 | 0·85 | ||||||||
| Puccinellia | 1·78 | – | 1·60 | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||||||
| Rytidosperma | 1·68 | 1·80 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||||||