Morphology and tuber formation of in-vitro, grown potato plants harboring the yeast invertase gene and/or the rolC gene

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 18, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 318-324

  Romanov, G A ^a   Konstantinova, T N ^a   Sergeeva, L I ^a   Golyanovskaya, S A ^a   Kossmann, J ^b   Willmitzer, L ^b   Schmulling T ^c   Aksenova, N P ^a  

^a TIMIRYAZEV INSTITUTE OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Invertase gene; Patatin promoter; RolC gene; Solanum tuberosum; Tuber formation

Indexed keywords

BETA FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; ORGANOGENESIS; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GROWTH; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0032456784     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002990050579     Document Type: Article

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