Selection and microculture of single embryogenic cell clusters in Japanese conifers: Picea jezoensis, Larix leptolepis and Cryptomeria japonica

In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology - Plant

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 428-431

  Ogita, Shinjiro ^a   Sasamoto, Hamako ^a   Kubo, Takafumi ^b  

^a FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cryptomeria japonica; Embryogenic cell clusters; Larix leptolepis; Microculture; Micromanipulation; Picea jezoensis

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROPHYTA; CRYPTOMERIA JAPONICA; JAPONICA; LARIX; LARIX LEPTOLEPIS; PICEA; PICEA JEZOENSIS;

EID: 0032736887     PISSN: 10545476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11627-999-0061-6     Document Type: Article

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