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Molecular evidence of true-to-type propagation of a 3-year-old Norway spruce through somatic embryogenesis.
Planta - 1 Sept 2001
Harvengt L, Trontin J F, Reymond I, Canlet F, Paques M
Abstract excerpt
Some progress has recently been made in establishing a system enabling somatic embryos to be initiated from old elite trees. We report here the first results demonstrating the molecular conformity of somatic embryos initiated from increasingly old Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.), as indicated by an analysis of six nuclear microsatellites that showed an extremely high tendency to mutate during in vitro...
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