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Somaclonal Variation in Cucurbits

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Somaclonal Variation in Crop Improvement I

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Cucurbits were among the first plants used by man, and the bottle gourd may be the only plant known in both the New and Old Worlds in early prehistoric times. Species of Cucurbita were major crops in the agriculture of the Aztec, Inca, and Mayan civilizations in Central and South America. Cucumbers have been cultivated in India for perhaps 3000 years (Esquinas-Alcazar and Gulik 1983).

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Moreno, V., Roig, L.A. (1990). Somaclonal Variation in Cucurbits. In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) Somaclonal Variation in Crop Improvement I. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 11. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02636-6_18

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