Origin and development of secondary somatic embryos in transformed embryogenic cultures of Medicago sativa

Biologia Plantarum

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-6

  Uzelac, B ^a   Ninkovic S ^a   Smigocki, A ^b   Budimir, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alfalfa; Genetic transformation; Histological study

Indexed keywords

MEDICAGO SATIVA;

EID: 33947532335     PISSN: 00063134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10535-007-0001-4     Document Type: Article

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