Strategies for field collection of recalcitrant seeds and zygotic embryonic axes of the tropical tree, Trichilia dregeana Sond.

Seed Science and Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 825-836

  Berjak, P ^a   Kioko, J I ^a   Makhathini, A ^a   Watt, M P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; TRICHILIA; TRICHILIA DREGEANA;

EID: 11144229239     PISSN: 02510952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15258/sst.2004.32.3.17     Document Type: Article

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