Lower incidence of variants in Caladium bicolor Ait. plants propagated by culture of explants from younger tissue

Scientia Horticulturae

Volumn 96, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 187-194

  Ahmed, E U ^a   Hayashi, T ^a   Zhu, Y ^a   Hosokawa, M ^a   Yazawa, S ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Caladium; Explant; Micro propagation; Variant

Indexed keywords

HORTICULTURE;

CALADIUM; CALADIUM BICOLOR;

EID: 0037032730     PISSN: 03044238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4238(02)00092-4     Document Type: Article

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