Tissue culture as a plant production system for horticultural crops
In 1980, a conference on tissue culture of fruit crops was held at Beltsville to summarize the current status of this technology and to stimulate interest in it among research scientists, students, and commercial producers in the U. S. Interest in that co
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CURRENT PLANT SCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY IN AGRICULTURE Scientific Editor: F.A. Bliss, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisc. Scientific Advisory Board: P.S. Baenziger, Monsanto, St. Louis, Miss. K. Barton, Agracetus Corp., Middleton, Wisc. F. Cannon, Biotechnica Int., Cambridge, Mass. A. Galston, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. J. Lyman Snow, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey N.C. Nielsen, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. J. Sprent, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
Evans, H.J., Bottemley, P.J. and Newton, W.E. (eds): Nitrogen fixation research progress. 1985. Zimmerman, R.H., Griesbach, R.J., Hammerschlag, F.A. and Lawson, R.H. (eds): Tissue culture as a plant production system for horticultural crops. 1986.
Tissue culture as a plant production system for horticultural crops Conference on Tissue Culture as a Plant Production System for Horticultural Crops, Beltsville, MD, October 20-23, 1985
edited by
RICHARD H. ZIMMERMAN ROBERT J. GRIESBACH FREDDI A. HAMMERSCHLAG ROGER H. LAWSON US Department of Agriculture, ARS Beltsville, MD, USA
1986
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ISBN-13: 978-94-010-8477-2 e-ISBN-13: 978-94-009-4444-2 DOl: 10.1007/978-94-009-4444-2
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© 1986 by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1986 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reprociuced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, P.O. Box 163, 3300 AD Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface
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Introductory Lectures Principles of Plant Tissue Culture R. A. de Fossard • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
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The Application of Tissue Culture to Plant Improvement and Propagation in the Ornamental Horticulture Industry Irwin Y. E. Chu •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
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New Technology New Technologies in Plant Tissue Culture W. Jan Rowe •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
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Plug Systems for Micropropagules D. D. McCown ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
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Totipotent Suspensions as a Means of Multiplication A. D. Krikorian, R. P. Kann, Stefania A. O'Connor and Mindy S. Fitter
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Phenotypic and Genotypic Stability Phenotypic and Genotypic Stability of Tissue Cultured Plants D. A. Evans and J. E. Bravo .......................
