Am. Steiner et al., VERIFICATION OF VARIETIES OF ALPINE MEADOW-GRASS (POA ALPINA L.) FLORET MORPHOLOGY, CHROMOSOME-NUMBER AND SINGLE SEED STORAGE PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS, Plant varieties & seeds, 10(2), 1997, pp. 129-134
Alpine meadow-grass (Poa alpina L.) is a valuable fodder grass in high
alpine regions and particularly suited for landscape engineering. Its
florets differ in size and diagnostic characters from the other trade
d Poa-species. The number of chromosomes is variable. However, storage
protein electrophoresis patterns of the obviously apomictic species a
re different among ecotypes and different from other Poa-species. Thus
, in seed testing, verification of species can be done by floret diagn
ostic characters and verification and purity determination of varietie
s and breeding materials by storage protein electrophoresis.