Comparative use of a commercial bioreactor system and conventional micropropagation for the production of potato microtubers and grape myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica) microshoots

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 616, Issue , 2003, Pages 369-373

  Grigoriadou, K ^a   Leventakis, N ^a  

^a Vitro Hellas SA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acclimatization; Growth retardants; Liquid culture; Solanum tuberosum

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949311605     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2003.616.55     Document Type: Conference Paper

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