Polyethylene glycol promotes maturation but inhibits further development of Picea abies somatic embryos

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 211-224

  Bozhkov, Peter V ^a   Von Arnold, Sara ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Abscisic acid; Germination; Maturation; Norway spruce; Osmotic stress; Partial desiccation; Picea abies; Polyethylene glycol; Somatic embryos

Indexed keywords

ABSCISIC ACID; CONIFERALES; GENOTYPE; GROWTH REGULATION; MACROGOL; MATURATION; MORPHOGENESIS; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PROTOPLASM; SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS;

PICEA ABIES;

EID: 0031766217     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1998.1040209.x     Document Type: Article

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