Overview
In continuation of Somaclonal Variation and Crop Improvement I (1990), this volume is comprised of twenty-four chapters dealing with somaclonal variants showing resistance to salt drought, herbicides, viruses, "Alternaria," "Fusarium," "Glomerella," "Verticillium," "Phytophthora," fall armyworm, etc. in a number of plants of economic importance. It is divided into two sections: Section I. Somaclonal Variation in Agricultural Crops: wheat, rice, maize, sorghum, potato, tomato, "Lotus," "Stylosanthes," banana, strawberry, citrus, colt cherry. Section II. Somaclonal Variation in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: "Atropa," "Carthamus," "Hypericum," "Lavatera," "Nicotiana," Primula, Rauwolfia, scilla, and Zinnia.
- | Author: Y. P. S. Bajaj
- | Publisher: Springer
- | Publication Date: Oct 04, 2011
- | Number of Pages: 359 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 3642646840
- | ISBN-13: 9783642646843
