Selection and long-term cultures of high-yielding Digitalis obscura plants: RAPD markers for analysis of genetic stability

Plant Science

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 197-205

  Gavidia, Isabel ^a   Del Castillo Agudo, Lucas ^a   Pérez Bermúdez, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Digitalis; Genotype; Long term culture; Micropropagation; RAPD PCR fingerprints

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001265217     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9452(96)04510-4     Document Type: Article

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