Ubiquitous presence of normally non-culturable endophytic bacteria in field shoot-tips of banana and their gradual activation to quiescent cultivable form in tissue cultures

Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 39-54

  Thomas, Pious ^a   Swarna, Ganiga K ^a,b   Patil, Prakash ^a   Rawal, Ram D ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF HORTICULTURAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b Dr S G Reddy College   (India)

Author keywords

Epigenetic variation; Habituation; In vitro gene bank; Microbial contamination; Molecular profiling; Musa sp.; Non culturable bacteria; Plant tissue culture; Somaclonal variation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOLOGY; CONTAMINATION; DNA; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PLANTS (BOTANY); TISSUE CULTURE;

ENDOPHYTIC BACTERIA; EPIGENETIC VARIATION; HABITUATION; IN VITRO GENE BANKS; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MOLECULAR PROFILING; NONCULTURABLE BACTERIA; PLANT TISSUE CULTURE; SOMACLONAL VARIATION;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MUSA SP.;

EID: 41049115167     PISSN: 01676857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11240-008-9340-x     Document Type: Article

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