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Tissue Culture Gel Firmness: Measurement And Effects On Growth

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  1. Department of Agricultural and Food Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

    S. Dutta Gupta

  2. Department of Biological Science, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan

    Yasuomi Ibaraki

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Cameron, S.I. (2008). Tissue Culture Gel Firmness: Measurement And Effects On Growth. In: Gupta, S.D., Ibaraki, Y. (eds) Plant Tissue Culture Engineering. Focus on Biotechnology, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-3694-1_17

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