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Hodeba D Mignouna1, Mathew M Abang, Robert Asiedu

  • 1African Agricultural Technology Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya.

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols
|February 13, 2010
PubMed
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This study outlines a protocol for generating whole yam (Dioscorea) plantlets using two methods: yam meristem culture and yam node cuttings for efficient propagation.

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