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An evolutionary view of plant tissue culture: somaclonal variation and selection.
Plant cell reports - 1 Sept 2012
Wang Qin-Mei, Wang Li
Abstract excerpt
Plants regenerated from in vitro cultures possess an array of genetic and epigenetic changes. This phenomenon is known as 'somaclonal variation' and the frequency of somaclonal variation (SV) is usually elevated far beyond that expected in nature. Initially, the relationship between time in culture and detected SV was found to support the widespread belief that SV accumulates with culture age. However, a few...
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