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Micropropagation of Prosopis Species (Mesquites)

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High-Tech and Micropropagation V

Part of the book series: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry ((AGRICULTURE,volume 39))

Abstract

The genus Prosopis (family Leguminosae) is composed of nearly 45 species, commonly called mesquites, distributed in arid and semiarid zones of Asia, Africa, Australia, and America. Forty-two of these species are native to America, where they are distributed from western North America to Patagonia, with an important polymorphism center in central-west Argentina (De Ataide 1990).

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Arce, J.P., Medina, M.C. (1997). Micropropagation of Prosopis Species (Mesquites). In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) High-Tech and Micropropagation V. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 39. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07774-0_23

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