Development of in vitro culture and gene transfer techniques in sugarcane (Saccharum species hybrids).

In vitro cell and tissue culture systems were developed for sugarcane in order to utilise current transformation techniques to introduce genes to South African sugarcane varieties, which would be difficult, if not impossible to achieve in conventional breeding programmes. Embryogenic calli were init...

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Main Author: Snyman, Sandra Jane.
Other Authors: Huckett, Barbara I.
Language:en_ZA
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10413/8122