Somatic embryogenesis tissue culture for the propagation of conifer seedlings: A technology comes of age

Tree Planters' Notes

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 48-57

  Grossnickle, S C ^a   Cyr, D ^b   Polonenko, D R ^b  

^a BCRI   (Canada)

^b NONE

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