A simple and rapid method for isolating high quality RNA from flower petals

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 543, Issue , 2001, Pages 147-152

  Hunter, Donald A ^a   Reid, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Borate; Flowers; Narcissus; Petals; Rna isolation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001468825     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2001.543.18     Document Type: Article

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