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Protocols for In Vitro Propagation of Ornamental Plants (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
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Protocols for In Vitro Propagation of Ornamental Plants (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology, 589
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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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