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In Vitro Culture of Maize Inflorescences

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Part of the book series: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry ((AGRICULTURE,volume 25))

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The culture of grass inflorescences has been attempted for three different reasons: (a) to induce somatic embryogenesis (Sharma et al. 1984; Vasil 1985; Rhodes et al. 1986; Pareddy and Petolino 1990); (b) to study the factors responsible for spikelet maturation and grain-filling (Donovan and Lee 1977, 1978; Singh and Jenner 1983; Nicholls 1986; Armstrong et al. 1987; Trione and Stockwell 1989); and (c) to study the factors underlying normal development and morphogenesis (Polowick and Greyson 1982; Pareddy and Greyson 1985; Bommineni and Greyson 1987). This last objective, as studied in maize inflorescences, is the focus of the present chapter.

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  1. Department of Plant Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, N6A 5B7, Ontario, Canada

    R. I. Greyson

  2. Dow Elanco, P.O. Box 68955, 9410 Zionsville Road, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46268-1053, USA

    D. R. Pareddy

  3. Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N OWO, Canada

    P. L. Polowick

  4. National Research Council of Canada, Plant Biotechnology Institute, 110 Gymnasium Place, Saskatoon, S7N OW9, SK, Canada

    V. R. Bommineni

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Greyson, R.I., Pareddy, D.R., Polowick, P.L., Bommineni, V.R. (1994). In Vitro Culture of Maize Inflorescences. In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) Maize. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 25. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57968-4_9

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