Marker gene delivery to mature wheat embryos via particle bombardment

Turkish Journal of Botany

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 303-308

  Öktem, Hüseyin Avni ^a   Eyidoǧan, Füsun ^a   Ertuǧrul, Fahriye ^a   Yücel, Meral ^a   Jenes, Barnabas ^b   Toldi, Ottó ^b  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

GUS; Mature embryo; Particle bombardment; Transformation; Wheat

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001197425     PISSN: 1300008X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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