Conditioning promotes regeneration and transformation in apple leaf explants

Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-11

  Sriskandarajah, Sridevy ^a   Goodwin, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

glucuronidase expression; Agrobacterium tumefaciens; Conditioning; Genetic transformation; Malus x domestica

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM; APPLE; CALLUS CULTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CELL WALL; CONDITIONING; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; REGENERATION;

EID: 0031861311     PISSN: 01676857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006044429449     Document Type: Article

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