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COPING WITH MICROBIAL CONTAMINANTS AND OTHER MATTERS IN A SMALL COMMERCIAL MICROPROPAGATION LABORATORY

Article number

225_18

Pages

167 – 176

Language

Abstract

The methods used to initiate cultures and to counter contamination rely mainly on using hypochlorite solutions.
The paper includes a number of questions, the answers to which would aid decision-making in small laboratories.

Publication

Bacterial and Bacteria-like Contaminants of Plant Tissue Cultures

Authors

R.A. de Fossard, H. de Fossard

Keywords

Full text

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1988.225.18

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