Recent advances in wheat transformation

In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology - Plant

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 404-414

  Janakiraman, Vasant ^a   Steinau, Martin ^a   McCoy, Serena B ^a   Trick, Harold N ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic engineering; Review; Tissue culture; Triticum aestivum

Indexed keywords

EMBRYOPHYTA; TRITICUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0036753712     PISSN: 10545476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/IVP2002320     Document Type: Conference Paper

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