Long term in vitro-cultured plant cells show typical neoplastic features at the cytological level

Biology of the Cell

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 357-364

  Häsler, Julien ^a   Wüest, Jean ^b   Gaspar, Thomas ^a,c   Crèvecoeur, Michèle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b MUSÉUM D HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Callus; Habituation; Incomplete cell wall; Nucleolar vacuole; Plant cancer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL REGENERATION; CELL VACUOLE; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; HABITUAL ADAPTATION; HORMONE DEPENDENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PLANT CELL CULTURE; PLANT TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUGAR BEET; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR GROWTH;

EID: 0141839712     PISSN: 02484900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0248-4900(03)00077-7     Document Type: Article

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