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Structural and cytochemical aspects of Brassica rapa L. embryogenesis under clinorotation

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The results of study of embryo development in B. rapa plants as well as rate and character of nutrient substance accumulation in their cells under slow horizontal clinorotation and the laboratory control were presented. Significant similarity in the peculiarities of embryo differentiation and character of nutrient substance accumulation in both variants was established. The cases of different deviations during embryo differentiation, quantity of reserve nutrient substances, and the rate of their accumulation in the cells were revealed under clinorotation in comparison with the laboratory control.

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Original Russian Text © A.F. Popova, G.F. Ivanenko, 2010, published in Tsitologiya i Genetika, 2010, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 22–28.

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Popova, A.F., Ivanenko, G.F. Structural and cytochemical aspects of Brassica rapa L. embryogenesis under clinorotation. Cytol. Genet. 44, 88–94 (2010). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0095452710020039

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