Current trends and future prospects of biotechnological interventions through tissue culture in apple

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1215-1225

  Bhatti, Shammi ^a   Jha, Gopaljee ^a  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Apple scab; Cisgenic; Disease resistance; Fruit quality; Intragenic; Micropropagation; Shelf life; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; APPLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CROP; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; REVIEW; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AGRICULTURE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; CULTURE MEDIA; MALUS; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; HEXAPODA; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 77958498516     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-010-0907-8     Document Type: Review

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