Abstract
Embryo culture is the sterile isolation and growth of an immature or mature embryo in vitro, with the goal of obtaining a viable plant (Fig. 16.1). The information dealt with in this Chapter is taken in part from the following review articles: Tukey (1935), Randolph and Cox (1943), Kruyt (1951), Rijven (1952), Rappaport (1954), Zagaja (1962), Sanders and Ziebur (1963), Narayanaswamy and Norstog (1964), Maheshwari and Rangaswamy (1965), Dégivry (1966), Bajaj and Bopp (1971), Theiler (1971), Beasly et al. (1974), Norstog (1975), Jensen (1976), Raghavan (1966, 1976a, 1977, 1980, 1986), Monnier (1980), Johri et al. (1982), Hu and Wang (1986).
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Pierik, R.L.M. (1997). Embryo culture. In: In Vitro Culture of Higher Plants. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5750-6_15
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