VEGETATIVE PROPAGATION OF HORTICULTURAL CROPS IN VITRO WITH SPECIAL ATTENTION TO SHRUBS AND TREES

In vitro culture of higher plants is the aseptic growing of embryos, seeds, plants, organs, tissues, cells or protoplasts on artificial nutrient media.
In vitro culture is merely a technique; its value depends upon the use we make of it and upon the feasability to apply this technique in horticultural practice.
Since the cultivation of higher plants in vitro can play such an important role in basic and applied research, it is worth enquiring what its uses and prospects are.
In this paper attention will be paid to the vegetative propagation of horticultural crops in vitro with special emphasis on the propagation of shrubs and trees.

Symposium on Propagation in Arboriculture

R.L.M. Pierik

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1975.54.9