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Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) is one of the world’s most commercially important timber trees. Due to the increasing demands for forest products and the decreasing woodland area, there is a need for increasing wood production on existing lands. The use of elite tree clones is an effective way of increasing productivity. Somatic embryogenesis is considered to be an economically viable method of mass propagation of such elite clones (Aitken-Christie et al, 1995).
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Zhang, C., Gadgil, C., Hu, WS. (1999). Quantitative Analysis of Douglas-fir Somatic Embryogenesis. In: Altman, A., Ziv, M., Izhar, S. (eds) Plant Biotechnology and In Vitro Biology in the 21st Century. Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture, vol 36. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4661-6_23
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