Tissue Culture of Trees
1 John H. Dodds The culture offragmen ts of plant tissue is not a particularly new science, in fact as long ago as 1893 Rechinger (1893) described the formation of callus on isolated fragments of stems and roots. The culture of plant tissues in vitro on a
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Edited by John H. Dodds
CROOM HELM London & Sydney
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AMERICAN EDITION Published by THE AVI PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. Westport, Connecticut 1983
© 1983 John H. Dodds Croom Helm Ltd, Provident House, Burrell Row, Beckenham, Kent BR3 lAT Croom Helm Australia Pty Ltd, First Floor, 139 King Street, Sydney, NSW 2001, Australia Reprinted 1985
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Tissue culture of trees. 1. Trees 2. Tissue culture I. Dodds, John H. 634.9'56 QK477.2T/ ISBN-13: 978-1-4684-6693-5 001: 10.1007/978-1-4684-6691-1
e-ISBN-13: 978-1-4684-6691-1
Published in North, Central and South America 1983 by AVI PUBLISHING COMPANY, 250 Post Road East, Westport, Connecticut 06881 ISBN-13: 978-1-4684-6693-5
CONTENTS
List of Contributors
vii
Acknowledgements
ix
List of Terms, Abbreviations and Synonyms
x
1.
Introduction John H Dodds
2.
Tissue Culture of Coniferous Trees Allan John
6
3.
Tissue Culture of Hardwoods John H Dodds
22
4.
Tissue Culture Propagation of Coconut, Date and
Oil Palm Jennet Blake
29
5.
Culture of Ornamental Trees Teresa Bengochea
51
6.
Tissue Culture Propagation of Temperate Fruit Trees Christopher P. Wilkins and John H. Dodds
56
7.
Tissue Culture of Citrus John H. Dodds
80
8.
The Influence of Physical Factors on Xylem Differentiation In Vitro Lorin W. Roberts
88
The Use of Protoplast Technology in Tissue Culture of Trees John H Dodds
103
Tissue Culture Conservation of Woody Species Christopher P. Wilkins and John H Dodds
113
Conclusions John H. Dodds
137
9. 10. 11.
Author Index
138
Subject Index
144
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
John H. Dodds (Editor) Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN. Unidad Irapuato, Blvd. Gustavo Diaz Ordaz 237, Oficina 101. Apdo. Postal 629, Irapuato, Gto. Mexico 36660.
Teresa Bengochea Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN. Unidad Iiapuato, Blvd. Gustavo Diaz Ordaz 237, Oficina 101. Apdo. Postal 629, Irapuato, Gto. Mexico 36660.
Jennet Blake Unit of Advanced Propagative Systems, Department of Horticulture, Wye College, University of London, Nr. Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom.
Allan John Forestry Commission, Northern Research Station, Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Lorin W. Roberts Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho 83843, USA.
Christopher P. Wilkins Dept. of Plant Biology, University of Birmingham, PO Box 363, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to thank all the authors whose contributions have made this book possible. Their enthusiastic response to requests for chapters and their rigid adherence to the timetable have made my job as editor a very pleasant one. I must however acknowledge that I am responsible for any errors that may have crept in during the editing process. I would like to thank Ms S. Newbury for assistance with line drawings and Miss J. Cox for photographic work. Much of the typing and modification of the manuscript was carried out by Margarita Huerta Garcia to whom I am grateful. I would also li
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