Trehalose drastically extends the in vitro vegetative culture period and facilitates maintenance of torenia fournieri plants

Plant Biotechnology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 263-266

  Yamaguchi, Hiroyasu ^a   Sasaki, Katsutomo ^a   Shikata, Masahito ^a   Aida, Ryutaro ^a   Ohtsubo, Norihiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF VEGETABLE AND TEA SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

In vitro culture; Rhizosphere environment; Torenia fournieri; Trehalose

Indexed keywords

TORENIA; TORENIA FOURNIERI;

EID: 79954479123     PISSN: 13424580     EISSN: 13476114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5511/plantbiotechnology.11.0124c     Document Type: Article

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