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Whole-mount Clearing and Staining of Arabidopsis Flower Organs and Siliques
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1United States Department of Agriculture, Pasadena, CA.
Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|March 11, 2011
Abstract:
A variety of factors contribute to flower induction in nature. These same factors are assumed to be responsible for in vitro flowering (I). Flower formation in tissue culture has been observed in several plant species, and arises from a variety of explant sources (2). However, the factors responsible for flowering in culture have not been extensively studied (I). Reasons for studying flower formation in tissue culture can be summarized as follows:
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