Recent Developments in Biotechnological Research on Bananas (Musa spp.)

Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Reviews

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 313-328

  Sági, László ^a   Remy, Serge ^a   Swennen, Rony ^a   May, Gregory D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUSA SPP;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

HEPATITIS B VACCINE; RECOMBINANT VACCINE;

AGRICULTURE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DISEASE RESISTANCE; FRUIT; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PROTOPLAST; REVIEW; RHIZOBIUM;

AGROBACTERIUM; MUSA;

EID: 0031900370     PISSN: 02648725     EISSN: 20465556     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02648725.1998.10647960     Document Type: Article

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