Sanitizing long-term micropropagated grapes from covert and endophytic bacteria and preliminary field testing of plants after 8 years in vitro

In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology - Plant

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 603-607

  Thomas, Pious ^a   Prakash, G S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF HORTICULTURAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Antibiotic treatment; Juvenility; Latent bacteria; Microbial contamination; Micropropagation; Vitis vinifera

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VITACEAE; VITIS; VITIS SP.; VITIS VINIFERA;

EID: 12544257044     PISSN: 10545476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/IVP2004583     Document Type: Article

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