Banana: Cultivars, biotechnological approaches and genetic transformation

International Journal of Food Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1871-1879

  Arvanitoyannis, Ioannis S ^a   Mavromatis, Athanassios G ^a   Grammatikaki Avgeli, Garyfalia ^b   Sakellariou, Michaela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Banana; Biosafety; Biotechnology; Genetic transformation; Genetically modified organism

Indexed keywords

EID: 51649129730     PISSN: 09505423     EISSN: 13652621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2621.2008.01766.x     Document Type: Article

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