Effective development of papaya ringspot virus resistant papaya with untranslatable coat protein gene using a modified microprojectile transformation method

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 461, Issue , 1998, Pages 311-314

  Gonsalves, Carol ^a   Cai, Wenqi ^a   Tennant, Paula ^a   Gonsalves, Dennis ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Carica papaya L.; Hawaii; Somatic embryo

Indexed keywords

EID: 1942468320     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.1998.461.34     Document Type: Conference Paper

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