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Quantification of the tissue-culture induced variation in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.).
BMC plant biology - 2 Mar 2007
Bednarek Piotr T, Orłowska Renata, Koebner Robert M D, Zimny Janusz
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BACKGROUND: When plant tissue is passaged through in vitro culture, many regenerated plants appear to be no longer clonal copies of their donor genotype. Among the factors that affect this so-called tissue culture induced variation are explant genotype, explant tissue origin, medium composition, and the length of time in culture. Variation is understood to be generated via a combination of genetic and/or...
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