Applications of in vitro culture systems for commercial sugarcane production and improvement

In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology - Plant

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 234-249

  Snyman, Sandy J ^a,b   Meyer, Gwethlyn M ^b   Koch, Aimee C ^b   Banasiak, Marzena ^b   Watt, M Paula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN SUGARCANE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Germplasm exchange and conservation; Micropropagation; Mutagenesis; Phenotypic and genotypic fidelity; Somaclonal variation; Sugarcane

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957540208     PISSN: 10545476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11627-011-9354-7     Document Type: Review

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