Enhancement of somatic embryogenesis and production of developmentally arrested embryos in Nigella sativa L.

HortScience

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 321-323

  Elhag, Hamid ^a   El Olemy, Mahmoud M ^a   Al Said, Mansour S ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Arrested development; Nigella sativa; p cymene; Somatic embryogenesis; Thymoquinone; pinene

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; GROWTH KINETICS; PLANT CELL CULTURE;

EMBRYOGENIC MASSES; EMBRYONIC STAGES; GROWTH REGULATORS; SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CUMINUM CYMINUM; NIGELLA; NIGELLA SATIVA;

EID: 2042465011     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.39.2.321     Document Type: Article

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