Technological advances in temperate hardwood tree improvement including breeding and molecular marker applications

In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology - Plant

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 283-303

  Pijut, Paula M ^a   Woeste, Keith E ^a   Vengadesan, G ^b   Michler, Charles H ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clonal propagation; Cryopreservation; Forest genetics; Genetic transformation; Organogenesis; Plantation forestry; Regeneration; Somatic embryogenesis

Indexed keywords

EUCALYPTUS; POPULUS;

EID: 34547841305     PISSN: 10545476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11627-007-9026-9     Document Type: Review

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