Morphological changes in transgenic Populus carrying the RolC gene from Agrobacterium rhizogenes

Silvae Genetica

Volumn 45, Issue 5-6, 1997, Pages 349-354

  Fladung, M ^a   Muhs, H J ^a   Ahuja, M R ^a  

^a Federal Research Centre for Forestry and Forest Products   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium; Aspen; Bud release; Dormancy; rolC; Transgenic Populus

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM RHIZOGENES; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. BOTRYTIS; CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS; POPULUS; POPULUS TREMULA; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; RHIZOBIUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0000571169     PISSN: 00375349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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