Somatic embryogenesis in red- and white-bract cultivars of poinsettia

Propagation of Ornamental Plants

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 61-66

  Castellanos, Marcos ^a   Power, J Brian ^a   Davey, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Euphorbia pulcherrima; Micropropagation; Plant genotype; Somatic embryos

Indexed keywords

EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIA PULCHERRIMA;

EID: 33745643151     PISSN: 13119109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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