Topolins: A panacea to plant tissue culture challenges?

Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-16

  Aremu, Adeyemi O ^a   Bairu, Michael W ^a   Doležal, Karel ^b,c   Finnie, Jeffrey F ^a   Van Staden, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b Institute of Experimental Botany AS CR   (Czech Republic)

^c PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Cytokinin metabolism; Growth parameters; meta Topolins; Micropropagation; Physiological disorders

Indexed keywords

CYTOKININ METABOLISM; GROWTH PARAMETERS; META-TOPOLINS; MICROPROPAGATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL DISORDERS;

ECOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; TISSUE; TISSUE CULTURE;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

EID: 81555201457     PISSN: 01676857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11240-011-0007-7     Document Type: Review

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