Assessment of Resistance to Tulip Breaking Virus (Tbv) in the Tulip Collections of the Botanical Garden of Vilnius University

Bioecology of Fungi-Pathogens of Flower Crops and the System to Combat Them

“…The assortment of cultural tulips during four centuries has greatly changed; numerous cultivars and groups have been lost. Especially many cultivars disappeared in the 16th -17th centuries when the lack of knowledge of tulips with variegated flowers caused color-broken because viral infection was highly valuated, propagated and widely distributed [5] [6]. Information of the tulip growing tradition in Lithuania and development of introductive investigations, which is divided into two periods, is presented in this work.…”

“…Information of the tulip growing tradition in Lithuania and development of introductive investigations, which is divided into two periods, is presented in this work. Within the first period including years, 1972-1992, scientific investigations on tulip introduction and bulb reproduction were carried out at the Vilnius Section of Bulbous Flowers of Kaunas Botanical Garden [5] [6].…”