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In 1980, a conference on tissue culture of fruit crops was held at Beltsville to summarize the current status of this technology and to stimulate interest in it among research scientists, students, and commercial producers in the U. S. Interest in that conference and the proceedings from it far exceeded the expectations of the organizing committee. Since that time, micropropagation of fruit crops in the U. S. has increased significantly, but still lags far behind applications to production of ornamental plants. Within the past two years, a number of new laboratories have been established and some of the existing laboratories have expanded to a size far larger than any previously anticipated. Creation of new laboratories capable of producing more than 400,000 plants per week will test the ingenuity of laboratory managers and the skills of marketing departments. In recent years, numerous symposia have been held on various aspects of biotechnology and genetic engineering. Although micro propagation is the key to providing large numbers of genetically engineered plants, it is a topic that has been relegated to a minor position, or ignored completely, at such meetings. Accordingly, the time seemed propitious for a conference devoted solely to all aspects of micropropagation as applicable to horticultural crops.
List of contents
Introductory Lectures.- Principles of Plant Tissue Culture.- The Application of Tissue Culture to Plant Improvement and Propagation in the Ornamental Horticulture Industry.- New Technology.- New Technologies in Plant Tissue Culture.- Plug Systems for Micropropagules.- Totipotent Suspensions as a Means of Multiplication.- Phenotypic and Genotypic Stability.- Phenotypic and Genotypic Stability of Tissue Cultured Plants.- Summary of Panel Discussion on Phenotypic and Genotypic Stability of Tissue Cultured Plants.- Pathogen Detection and Elimination.- Pathogen Detection and Elimination.- Production of Culture Virus-Indexed Geraniums.- Diagnosis of Plant Viruses Using Double-Stranded RNA.- Pathogen Indexing in Large-Scale Propagation of Florist Crops.- Certification of Horticultural Crops - A State Perspective.- Plant Quarantine.- Plant Quarantine and International Shipment of Tissue Culture Plants.- Summary of Panel Discussion on Plant Quarantines and International Shipment of Tissue Cultured Plants.- Economics.- Determining and Minimizing Production Costs.- Determining Markets and Market Potential.- Fruit, Nut, and Vegetable Crops.- Propagation of Fruit, Nut and Vegetable Crops - Overview.- Small Fruit and Grape Tissue Culture from 1980 to 1985: Commercialization of the Technique.- Temperate Fruits and Nuts.- Tropical and Subtropical Fruits and Vegetables.- Commercial In Vitro Propagation and Plantation Crops.- Use of Tissue Culture for Micropropagation of Vegetable Crops.- Workshop.- Tissue Culture Techniques and Plant Introduction/Quarantine Procedures.- Ornamental Crops.- Tissue Culture Propagation of Ornamental Crops: An Overview.- Tissue Culture as a Plant Production System for Foliage Plants.- Commercial Micropropagation of Florist Flower Crops.- In vitroPropagation of Flower-Bulb Crops.- Woody Ornamentals, Shade Trees and Conifers.- Orchid Tissue Culture.- Laboratory Design and Large Scale Production.- Laboratory Design.- Summary of Panel Discussion on Laboratory Design.- Large Scale Tissue Culture Production for Horticultural Crops.
