Comparison of growth, yield, and flowering characteristics between micropropageted asparagus clones derived by sotamic embyrogenesis and seed-propagated progenies

Journal of the Japanese Society for Horticultural Science

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 311-319

  Kohmura, Hiroyuki ^a   Ito, Teisuke ^a   Shigemoto, Naoki ^a   Imoto, Masashi ^c   Yoshikawa, Hiroaki ^b  

^a Hiroshima Prefectural Agriculture Research Center   (Japan)

^b National Institute of Vegetable and Tea Science   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGUS; ASPARAGUS OFFICINALIS;

EID: 0030483632     PISSN: 18823351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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