Plant regeneration from cocoyam callus derived from shoot tips and petioles

Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 127-134

  Nyochembeng, Leopold M ^a   Garton, Stephen ^a  

^a ALABAMA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

2iP; Callus; Dicamba; Protocorm; Tissue culture; Xanthosoma sagittifolium

Indexed keywords

XANTHOSOMA SAGITTIFOLIUM;

EID: 0031715057     PISSN: 01676857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006084207636     Document Type: Article

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