Biotechnology in Horticulture: 100 Years of Application

McCown, Brent H.

doi:10.21273/hortsci.38.5.1026

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“…Recently, beside prevention and restoration programs in forestry to suppress or restrain tree diseases, new methods of forest protection are being implemented, especially in vitro biotechnological methods which have been broadly applied to agriculture (Herdt 2006), horticulture (McCown 2003) and commercial culture of tropical grasses (palms) (Abul-Soad and Mahdi 2010). Since the second half of the 1980s, new biotechnological research directions have been applied worldwide in forestry and led to numerous specialized methods, including in vitro tissue culture via somatic embryogenesis, designed especially for gymnosperm species (Litz et al 1995;Giri et al 2004), and organogenesis for gymnosperms and angiosperms (Rangaswamy 1986).…”

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Ecophysiological aspects of in vitro biotechnological studies using somatic embryogenesis of callus tissue toward protecting forest ecosystems

Nawrot-Chorabik¹,

Pietrzykowski

2018

J. For. Res.

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This review on current biotechnological methods in forestry for in vitro tissue cultures to define the effect of stress conditions on trees, concentrates on somatic embryogenesis. Callus tissue, the key product of somatic embryogenesis, grows over a tree wound under ex vitro conditions. Callus tissue can be used in research in areas such as pathogenic susceptibility at the embryonic level, effect of heavy metals, influence of low temperatures (cryopreservation), production of secondary metabolites and transformation of plants. Callus of arborescent plants can be induced in vitro by fungal elicitors to produce secondary metabolites for pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries and are strongly repellant to herbivores and can thus act to protect forests. Analyses of dual cultures demonstrated that callus tissue exposed to a pathogenic fungus responds by synthesizing low-molecular-mass proteins belonging to an immune protein class. Cryopreservation of embryonic callus tissue also has broad applications, e.g., for valuable plant genotypes in gene banks. Without strategies to protect forests against stress factors, forest ecosystems will degrade to the detriment of all life, including humans. In vitro biotechnological research using callus tissue contributes to progress in forestry and the disciplines of ecology, physiology, phytopathology, culture and selection of plants.

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