Establishment of callus and cell suspension cultures of Opuntia ficus-indica

Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 155-157

  Llamoca Zárate, Rómulo M ^a,b   Studart Guimarães, Claudia ^b   Landsmann, Joerg ^a   Campos, Francisco A P ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cactaceae; Forage crops; In vitro propagation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0343238884     PISSN: 01676857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006315729266     Document Type: Article

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