Suitability of small and branching sunflower varieties for molecular genetic experiments and their transformation by Agrobacterium infection

Plant Biotechnology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 97-104

  Ikeda, Miho ^a   Matsumura, Masatoshi ^a   Kamada, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium; Branching sunflowers; Shoot regeneration

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM; HELIANTHUS; HELIANTHUS ANNUUS; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 28444444450     PISSN: 13424580     EISSN: 13476114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5511/plantbiotechnology.22.97     Document Type: Article

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