Adventitious regeneration in vitro occurs across a wide spectrum of squash (Cucurbita pepo) genotypes

Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 285-295

  Kathiravan, Krishnan ^a,c   Vengedesan, G ^a,d   Singer, Sima ^a   Steinitz, Benjamin ^a   Paris, Harry S ^b   Gaba, Victor ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b Newe Ya'ar Research Center   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS   (India)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimeric regenerant; Direct regeneration; Multiple genotypes; Ploidy; Subspecies

Indexed keywords

CULTIVATION; GENES; PLANTS (BOTANY);

CHIMERIC REGENERANT; DIRECT REGENERATION; MULTIPLE GENOTYPES; SUBSPECIES;

FORESTRY;

CULTIVATION; FORESTRY; GENES; PLANTS; PLOIDY;

CUCURBITA PEPO; PEPO;

EID: 33744956016     PISSN: 01676857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11240-006-9079-1     Document Type: Article

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