ENGLISH

Somaclonal Variation in Crop Improvement II

By Professor Dr. Y. P. S. Bajaj (eds.) , K. Z. Ahmed , Á. Mesterházy , F. Sági (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
1996
ISBN
978-3-642-64684-3, 978-3-642-61081-3
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-61081-3
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
25 MB (26159592 bytes)
Series
Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry 36
Edition
1
Pages
359\373
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Agriculture; Forestry; Plant Sciences; Pharmacolog

Description

In continuation of Somaclonal Variation andCrop ImprovementI (1990), this volume is comprised of twenty-four chapters dealing with somaclonal variants showing resistance to salt/drought, herbicides, viruses, Alternaria, Fusarium, Glomerella, Verticillium, Phytophthora, fall armyworm, etc. in a number of plants of economic importance. It is divided into two sections: Section I. Somaclonal Variation in Agricultural Crops: wheat, rice, maize, sorghum, potato, tomato, Lotus, Stylosanthes, banana, strawberry, citrus, colt cherry. Section II. Somaclonal Variation in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: Atropa, Carthamus, Hypericum, Lavatera, Nicotiana, Primula, Rauwolfia, Scilla, and Zinnia. This book will be of great assistance to research workers, teachers, and advanced students of plant pathology, tissue culture, pharmacy, horticulture, and especially plant breeding.

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