Plant regeneration and production of embelin from organogenic and embryogenic callus cultures of Embelia ribes Burm. f.-a vulnerable medicinal plant

In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology - Plant

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 506-515

  Raghu, A V ^a   Unnikrishnan, Kuzhiyumparambil ^a   Geetha, S P ^a   Martin, Gerald ^a   Balachandran, Indira ^a  

^a Centre for Medicinal Plants Research   (India)

Author keywords

Callus induction; Embelia ribes; Embelin; Metabolite production; Organogenesis; Plant regeneration; Somatic embryogenesis

Indexed keywords

EMBELIA; EMBELIA RIBES; RIBES HUDSONIANUM;

EID: 80051664595     PISSN: 10545476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11627-011-9365-4     Document Type: Article

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