Assessment of the Efficiency of Various Gene Promoters via Biolistics in Leaf and Regenerating Seed Callus of Millets, Eleusine coracana and Echinochloa crusgalli

Plant Biotechnology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 275-282

  Gupta, Promila ^a   Raghuvanshi, Saurabh ^a   Tyagi, Akhilesh K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Biolistics; Echinochloa crusgalli; Eleusine coracana; Gene promoters; Somatic embryogenesis; Transient expression

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344363109     PISSN: 13424580     EISSN: 13476114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5511/plantbiotechnology.18.275     Document Type: Article

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