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Monozygotic cleavage polyembryogenesis and conifer tree improvement.
TSitologiia i genetika - 1 Jan 2000
Durzan Don J
Abstract excerpt
The mass cloning of elite genotypes of commercially important conifers has led to the establishment of an industrial forest of two of the most important softwood species in the USA. Embryonal-suspensor masses, produced by monozygotic cleavage polyembryony (MCP), are rescued from controlled-pollinated seeds in tree breeding orchards. MCP is scaled up as cell suspensions and grown into mature somatic embryos. The...
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