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Isolation and Characterization of Mutant Plant Cell Cultures

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Plant Cell Culture in Crop Improvement

Part of the book series: Basic Life Sciences ((BLSC,volume 22))

Abstract

Mutant plant cell cultures are useful for biochemical and physiological studies, for markers in various genetic manipulation experiments and for the direct improvement of plants if the desired trait can be selected for and plants then be regenerated which express the trait. Many of the lines selected so far cannot truly be called mutants since genetic analysis, at the whole plant level, has not been carried out.

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Widholm, J.M. (1983). Isolation and Characterization of Mutant Plant Cell Cultures. In: Sen, S.K., Giles, K.L. (eds) Plant Cell Culture in Crop Improvement. Basic Life Sciences, vol 22. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4379-0_9

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