Long-term ploidy stability of shoot primordium cultures and produced plants of melon

Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 31-35

  Ezura, Hiroshi ^a   Kikuta, Isao ^a   Oosawa, Katsuji ^a  

^a PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cucumis melo; Cucurbitaceae; Polyploidy; Regeneration; Somaclonal variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030954233     PISSN: 01676857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005854523278     Document Type: Article

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