Micropropagation of Pacific Dogwood

Association of nematodes and dogwood cankers.

Dogwood canker is a serious production problem of unknown etiology. From May 1985 through April 1989, cankers from 290 flowering dogwood trees in 15 separate nurseries were sampled for nematodes. Seventy-three percent (213) of the cankers contained nematodes. Panagrolaimus rigidus (Schneider) Thorne (115/290) and Aphelenchoides spp. (91/290) were the most frequently collected taxa. Panagrolaimu...

Microsatellites from kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa).

Microsatellite loci were identified from Cornus kousa'National'. Primer pairs for 86 loci were developed and of these, eight were optimized and screened using genomic DNA from 22 kousa cultivars. All optimized loci were polymorphic and the number of alleles per locus ranged from three to 17. Observed heterozygosity ranged from 0 to 0.3 and expected heterozygosity ranged from 0.38 to 0.91. These...

Micropropagation of Anthurium spp

Automatic Micropropagation of Plants

Micropropagation is a sophisticated technique for the rapid multiplication of plants. It has a great commercial potential due to the speed of propagation, the high plant quality, and the ability to produce disease-free plants. However, micropropagation is usually done by hand which makes the process cost-intensive and tedious for the workers especially because it requires a sterile work-place. ...

Plant Micropropagation

Ivan Iliev1, Alena Gajdošová2, Gabriela Libiaková2 and Shri Mohan Jain3∗ 1Faculty of Ecology and Landscape Architecture, University of Forestry, Sofia, Bulgaria 2Institute of Plant Genetics and Biotechnology SAS, Nitra, Slovakia 3Plant Breeding Unit, International Atomic Energy Agency, Laboratories Siebersdorf, Vienna, Austria ∗Current address – Department of Applied Biology, University of Hels...