Morphoregulatory role of thidiazuron: Substitution of auxin and cytokinin requirement for the induction of somatic embryogenesis in geranium hypocotyl cultures

Plant Physiology

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 1704-1707

  Visser, Christena ^a   Qureshi, Javed A ^a   Gill, Ravinder ^a   Saxena, Praveen K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORTORUM; PELARGONIUM;

EID: 11944250012     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.99.4.1704     Document Type: Article

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