Exine-detached pollen of Nicotiana tabacum as an electroporation target for gene transfer

Acta Botanica Sinica

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 626-630

  Shi, Hua Zhong ^a   Wang, Jin ^a   Yang, Hong Yuan ^a   Zhou, Chang ^a   Chen, Zheng Hua ^b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Electroporation; Exine detached pollen; Nicotiana tabacum; Transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001724781     PISSN: 05777496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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