Sucrose effects on in vitro fruiting and seed production of Centaurium pulchellum

Biologia Plantarum

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 771-774

  Todorovic S ^a   Grubisic D ^a   Giba, Z ^a   Misic D ^a   Konjevic R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Explants; Germination; Gibberellic acid; Lesser centaury

Indexed keywords

CENTAURIUM; CENTAURIUM PULCHELLUM;

EID: 33745638296     PISSN: 00063134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10535-006-0128-8     Document Type: Article

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