Protocols for In Vitro Propagation of Ornamental Plants Paperback / softback
Edited by Shri Mohan Jain, Sergio J. Ochatt
Part of the Methods in Molecular Biology series
Paperback / softback
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It was around 1970, I had just completed a 5-year breeding project aiming at fxing fower colour in gerbera progenies: white, yellow, pink, and red; colour homogeneity was sound, but size and shape still required some improvement.
The problem was defnitely resolved by Murashige and Skoog, USA who published a reliable protocol for gerbera micropro- gation.
In short, my gerbera seed lines were immediately rendered obsolete by this e- cient cloning system, able to produce millions of plants of a matchless and previously unknown homogeneity, the uniformity of fower shape and colour being the basic requi- ments for the market.
The success of micropropagation resulted in a tremendous growth in gerbera fower production worldwide, and this species conquered a leading place in the foriculture industry.
This personal experience stresses the impact of micropropagation on the genetic improvement research strategies in ornamentals.
Micropropagation has become "in- sive", especially in ornamental plant material issues.
Today, hundreds of protocols exist; however, only a modest percentage of them are exploited economically. Thus, only micropropagation of plants with a high market price range, like orchids for instance, has proved cost-effective and achieved great success.
Micropropagation is a labour-intensive system: hand-power is estimated to rep- sent 60-70% of total costs.
This explains the outsourcing of the major labs in developing countries where labour is cheaper.
Nevertheless, certain industrial protocols remain a proprietary technology of leading labs, mostly western, with the exception of Japan and Taiwan.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:400 pages, 45 Tables, black and white; XIV, 400 p.
- Publisher:Humana Press Inc.
- Publication Date:07/03/2012
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- ISBN:9781617796739
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:400 pages, 45 Tables, black and white; XIV, 400 p.
- Publisher:Humana Press Inc.
- Publication Date:07/03/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9781617796739