Tissue Culture Of Pepper And Tree Spices: Potential, Priorities And Applications
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1988
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The paper highlights the problems in the propagation and improvement of pepper and tree spices and the potentialities offered by the tissue and cell culture; technology in solving some of these problems. In pepper, tissue culture will be useful in meeting the expected demand for rooted cuttings of improved lines during the rehabilitation and developmental programmes visualized for the future. It will be especially useful in accelerating the screening process against pathogens like Phytophthorapalmivora and nematodes. In nutmeg the tissue culturing of elite female trees will be useful in overcoming the dioecy problem as well as in the multiplication of elite lines. Tissue culture technique will be useful in the maintenance of germplasm of pepper and tree spices, in inducing more variability for breeding purposes, in the production of pure lines by anther culture and in the incorporation of new genetic characters through protoplast fusion.
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In: Proceedings, National Seminar on Plant Tissue Culture, CPCRI, Kasaragod, 2-4 Mar. 1983. Edited by S. N. Tata 1988 p-163-169