Cryopreservation of shoot primordia cultures of melon using a slow prefreezing procedure

Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 171-177

  Ogawa, Rie ^a,b   Ishikawa, Masaya ^a   Niwata, Eiko ^a,c   Oosawa, Katsuji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Aichi ken Agric Research Centre   (Japan)

^c Aomori GreenBio Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cucumis melo; Mass propagation; Storage

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030824293     PISSN: 01676857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005856617676     Document Type: Article

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