'Everthornless' blackberry

HortScience

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 778-779

  McPheeters, Ken ^a   Skirvin, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Fruit breeding; Rubus laciniatus; Somaclonal variation; Tissue culture

Indexed keywords

RUBUS; RUBUS LACINIATUS;

EID: 0033930648     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.35.4.778     Document Type: Article

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