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In vitro genetic selection for woody plant improvement

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Micropropagation of Woody Plants

Part of the book series: Forestry Sciences ((FOSC,volume 41))

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Larkin and Scowcroft [34] introduced the term somaclonal variation to describe variation produced from somatic cell and tissue culture procedures that resulted in phenotypic and genotypic variation among progeny. Individual plants with somaclonal variation were thus’ somaclones’. The definition has been extended to include any variation existing in genetically variable cell cultures whether it be pre-existing variation or variation induced by the cell culture process. The process of selecting for a specific variant trait in vitro has been termed’ somaclonal selection’.

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Michler, C.H. (1993). In vitro genetic selection for woody plant improvement. In: Ahuja, M.R. (eds) Micropropagation of Woody Plants. Forestry Sciences, vol 41. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8116-5_26

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