Gerbera micropropagation

Biotechnology Advances

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1344-1357

  Cardoso, Jean C ^a   Teixeira da Silva, Jaime A ^b,c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^b KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acclimatization; Adventitious shoot induction; Clonal propagation; Culture medium; Explants; Genotypes; Gerbera jamesonii; Somaclonal variations

Indexed keywords

CULTIVATION; PLANT LIFE EXTENSION;

ACCLIMATIZATION; CLONAL PROPAGATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; EXPLANTS; GENOTYPES; GERBERA JAMESONII; SHOOT INDUCTION; SOMACLONAL VARIATION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ACCLIMATION; ANGIOSPERM; BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENOTYPE; PLANT; ROOT; SHOOT; SURVIVAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GERBERA; GERBERA JAMESONII;

AUXIN; CYTOKININ; INDOLEACETIC ACID; PHYTOHORMONE; SELENIUM; THIDIAZURON; ZEATIN;

1-NAPHTHALENEACETIC ACID; 1/2 MS; 2-IP; 2-ISOPENTENYLADENINE; 6-BENZYLADENINE; 6-FURFURYLAMINOPURINE (KINETIN); ACCLIMATIZATION; ADENINE SULPHATE; ADS; ADVENTITIOUS SHOOT INDUCTION; AGRICULTURE; ASTERACEAE; AUX; BA; CHU 1978; CK; CLONAL PROPAGATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; DKW; DRIVER AND KINIYUKI 1984; EXPLANTS; GAMBORG ET AL. 1968; GENOTYPES; GERBERA JAMESONII; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HALF-STRENGTH MURASHIGE AND SKOOG (1962); IBA; INDOLE-3-ACETIC ACID; INDOLE-3-BUTYRIC ACID; INTER-SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT; ISSR; KIN; LINSMAIER AND SKOOG 1965; LS; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MURASHIGE AND SKOOG 1962; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; PGR; PHOT; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHOTOSYNTHETIC PHOTON FLUX DENSITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; SOMACLONAL VARIATIONS; SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS; TDZ; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE; TRANSVERSE THIN CELL LAYER; TTCL; ZEA;

1-NAPHTHALENEACETIC ACID; 1/2 MS; 2-IP; 2-ISOPENTENYLADENINE; 6-BENZYLADENINE; 6-FURFURYLAMINOPURINE (KINETIN); ACCLIMATIZATION; ADENINE SULPHATE; ADS; ADVENTITIOUS SHOOT INDUCTION; AUX; AUXIN; BA; CHU 1978; CK; CLONAL PROPAGATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOKININ; DKW; DRIVER AND KINIYUKI 1984; EXPLANTS; GAMBORG ET AL. 1968; GENOTYPES; GERBERA JAMESONII; HALF-STRENGTH MURASHIGE AND SKOOG (1962); IAA; IBA; INDOLE-3-ACETIC ACID; INDOLE-3-BUTYRIC ACID; INTER-SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT; ISSR; KIN; LINSMAIER AND SKOOG 1965; LS; MS; MURASHIGE AND SKOOG 1962; NAA; PGR; PHOT; PHOTOPERIOD; PHOTOSYNTHETIC PHOTON FLUX DENSITY; PLANT GROWTH REGULATOR; PPFD; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RAPD; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RFLP; SE; SOMACLONAL VARIATIONS; SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS; TDZ; THIDIAZURON; TRANSVERSE THIN CELL LAYER; TTCL; ZEA; ZEATIN;

AGRICULTURE; ASTERACEAE; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84888012076     PISSN: 07349750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2013.05.008     Document Type: Review

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