Echinacea biotechnology: Challenges and opportunities

In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology - Plant

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 481-492

  Abbasi, Bilal Haider ^a,e   Saxena, Praveen K ^b   Murch, Susan J ^c   Liu, Chun Zhao ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium mediated transformation; Echinacea; Phytochemicals; Plant growth regulators; Plant regeneration; Somatic embryogenesis

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM; ECHINACEA (ASTERACEAE); ECHINACEA PURPUREA; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 37249061192     PISSN: 10545476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11627-007-9057-2     Document Type: Review

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