Cytological and cytophotometric analysis of callus and regenerated plants of Ornithogalum virens

Cytobios

Volumn 1996, Issue 366-367, 1997, Pages 135-142

  Nayak, Sanghamitra ^a,b   Sen, Sumitra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^b CSIR INSTITUTE OF MINERALS AND MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Callus; Chromosome; DNA; Ornithogalum; Regenerants

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042996666     PISSN: 00114529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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