High efficient somatic embryogenesis development from leaf cultures of Citrullus colocynthis (L.) Schrad for generating true type clones

Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 279-285

  Ramakrishna, D ^a   Shasthree, T ^a  

^a KAKATIYA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Citrullus colocynthis; Embryogenic callus; Explants; Somatic embryogenesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978129533     PISSN: 09715894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12298-016-0357-z     Document Type: Article

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