1990•Medical Entomology and ZoologyRequires access
Micropropagation: technology and application.
Pierre Debergh, Richard H. Zimmerman
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Abstract
Micropropagation.- Laboratory design.- Problems in tissue culture: culture contamination.- Vitrification: morphological and physiological disorders of in vitro plants.- Acclimatization of micropropagated plants to the greenhouse and field.- Post culture behavior: genetic and epigenetic effects and related problems.- Economic considerations.- Marketing of micropropagated plants.- Commercial micropropagation in Western Europe and Israel.- Commercial production in Poland and other Eastern European countries.- Commercial micropropagation in North America.- Commercial micropropagation in Asia.- Commercial production in Australia and New Zealand.- Commercial micropropagation in South and Central America.- Micropropagation and plant tissue culture in developing countries of Africa.- Ornamentals.- Micropropagation of temperate zone fruit and nut crops.- Micropropagation of tropical and subtropical fruits.- Micropropagation of vegetable crop species.- Applications of micropropagation for agronomic crops.- Application of micropropagation to forestry.- Estate crops.- Automation.- Future technologies: model-reference control systems for the scale-up of embryogenesis and polyembryogenesis in cell suspension cultures.- Application of bioreactors in plant propagation.- Micropropagation under photoautotrophic conditions.- List of contributors.- Index of species.- Index of subjects.