Frozen storage stimulates the formation of embryo-like structures and elongating shoots in explants from mature Larix decidua and L. x eurolepsis trees

Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 91-101

  Bonga, J M ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

frozen storage; Larix; mature; somatic embryogenesis

Indexed keywords

LARIX; LARIX DECIDUA; LARIX EUROLEPIS;

EID: 0030443355     PISSN: 01676857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00034841     Document Type: Article

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