Caipira sweet orange + Rangpur lime: a somatic hybrid with potential for use as rootstock in the Brazilian citrus industry

Protoplast culture following polyethylene glycol-induced fusion resulted in the regeneration of somatic hybrid plants between Caipira sweet orange (Citrus sinensis L. Osbeck) and Rangpur lime (C. limonia L. Osbeck). The plants were confirmed as somatic hybrids by leaf morphology, chromosome number a...

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Main Authors: Fernanda Januzzi Mendes-da-Glória, Francisco de Assis Alves Mourão Filho, Luis Eduardo Aranha Camargo, Beatriz Madalena Januzzi Mendes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Genética 2000-09-01
Series:Genetics and Molecular Biology
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572000000300026