Bacterial contamination in Musa shoot tip cultures

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 490, Issue , 1998, Pages 485-492

  Van Den Houwe, I ^a   Guns, J ^a   Swennen, R ^a  

^a LABORATORY OF GENE TECHNOLOGY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACILLUS PUMILUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MUSA;

EID: 33947148680     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.1998.490.51     Document Type: Article

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