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FROM GOATS AND THRUSHES TO TEST TUBES: DEVELOPMENT OF SEXUAL AND CLONAL PROPAGATION METHODS FOR ORCHIDS
Article number
878_17
Pages
155 – 165
Language
English
Abstract
Many far-fetched theories were proposed for the origin of orchids because their seeds were not seen or recognized until about 500 years ago.
Nearly four centuries passed from the time orchid seeds were first seen and the development of a practical asymbiotic method for their germination.
Tissue culture based micropropagation methods were developed not long after that.
Professor Georges Morel is generally and erroneously credited as being the discoverer of orchid micropropagation, but the first to propagate orchids in vitro was Dr.
Gavino Rotor in 1949 and the nurseryman Hans Thomale in 1956.
Nearly four centuries passed from the time orchid seeds were first seen and the development of a practical asymbiotic method for their germination.
Tissue culture based micropropagation methods were developed not long after that.
Professor Georges Morel is generally and erroneously credited as being the discoverer of orchid micropropagation, but the first to propagate orchids in vitro was Dr.
Gavino Rotor in 1949 and the nurseryman Hans Thomale in 1956.
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Authors
J. Arditti, T.W. Yam
Keywords
orchid history, asymbiotic seed germination, micropropagation, hybridization, mycorrhiza
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