Chromosome number, genome size, seed storage protein profile and competence for direct somatic embryo formation in Algerian annual Medicago species

Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 531-540

  Fyad Lameche, Fatima Zohra ^a   Iantcheva, Anelia ^b,c   Siljak Yakovlev, Sonja ^d   Brown, Spencer C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ORAN   (Algeria)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c AGROBIOINSTITUTE   (Bulgaria)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^e INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY OF THE CELL I2BC   (France)

Author keywords

Annual medics; Chromosome counts; DNA amount; Seed storage proteins; Somatic embryogenesis

Indexed keywords

GENES; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS;

ANNUAL MEDICS; CHROMOSOME NUMBERS; GENOME SIZES; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; LIQUID MEDIUM; SEED STORAGE PROTEINS; SOMATIC EMBRYO; SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS;

CHROMOSOMES;

EID: 84957432153     PISSN: 01676857     EISSN: 15735044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11240-015-0912-2     Document Type: Article

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