High Frequency Plant Regeneration from Sugarcane Callus

Sugar Tech

Volumn 5, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 89-91

  Lal, Nand ^a,b  

^a GS Sugarcane Breed and Res Inst   (India)

^b CSJM UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Callus; Plantlets; Somatic embryogenesis; Sugarcane

Indexed keywords

SACCHARUM; SACCHARUM HYBRID CULTIVAR; SACCHARUM SP.;

EID: 0346671092     PISSN: 09721525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02943773     Document Type: Article

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