Metabolic stability of plants regenerated from cryopreserved shoot tips of Dioscorea deltoidea - An endangered medicinal plant

Scientia Horticulturae

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 513-517

  Dixit Sharma, Sonali ^a   Ahuja Ghosh, Sangeeta ^b   Mandal, Binay Bushan ^c   Srivastava, Prem Shankar ^d  

^a Avestha Gengraine Technologies Pvt Ltd   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES   (India)

^d HAMDARD UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Cryopreservation; Dioscorea deltoidea; Diosgenin; Genetic stability

Indexed keywords

CRYOPRESERVATION; MEDICINAL PLANT;

DIOSCOREA; DIOSCOREA ALATA; DIOSCOREA DELTOIDEA;

EID: 19544382182     PISSN: 03044238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scienta.2005.02.011     Document Type: Article

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