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Micropropagation of commercially important sugar beet cultivars

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Plants have been regenerated from petiole explants of six elite sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) cultivars. Significant variation was found between the responses of the six cultivars to elevated temperature and the N6-benzyladenine concentrations evaluated. The importance of genotype in the regeneration of plantlets from sugar beet petiole explants is considered.

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  1. Department of Physiology and Environmental Science, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, The University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE12 5RD, UK

    T.M. Grieve

  2. Plant Molecular Group, Department of Molecular and Life Sciences, University of Abertay, Bell Street, Dundee, DD1 HG, UK

    K.M.A. Gartland

  3. The David Attenborough Laboratoires, De Montfort University, Scraptoft, Leicester, LE7 9SU, UK

    M.C. Elliott

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Grieve, T., Gartland, K. & Elliott, M. Micropropagation of commercially important sugar beet cultivars. Plant Growth Regulation 21, 15–18 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005766902158

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