Direct somatic embryogenesis in a selected tea clone, 'TRI-2025' (Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze) from nodal explants

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 804-809

  Akula, A ^a,b   Dodd, W A ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clonal propagation; Nodal cuttings

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; AXENIC CULTURE; BUD; CALLUS CULTURE; EXPLANT; INCUBATION; INOCULATION; MULTIPLICATION; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GROWTH; PROPAGATION; SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS; TEA;

CAMELLIA SINENSIS;

EID: 0031879016     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002990050487     Document Type: Article

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