Plant Embryogenesis

Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 535-576

  Mordhorst, Andreas P ^a   Toonen, Marcel A J ^a,b   De Vries, Sacco C ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Androgenesis; Apomixis; In vitro fertilization; Polarity; Somatic embryogenesis; Zygote; Zygotic embryogenesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001244602     PISSN: 07352689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07352689709701959     Document Type: Article

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