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Micropropagation of Pineapple (Ananas comosus L.)

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High-Tech and Micropropagation II

Part of the book series: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry ((AGRICULTURE,volume 18))

Abstract

Pineapple [Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.] is a herbaceous perennial with fruit that is eaten fresh or canned commercially. The Ananas genus is poorly characterized taxonomically (Collins 1960; Smith and Downs 1979; Antoni 1983). One explanation for this may be that the center of origin and diversity of this genus is located in the isolated regions of the upper Amazonian River basin (Leal and Antoni 1980). The chromosome number of Ananas comosus is n = 25; while it is normally diploid, some triploid and tetraploid types have been identified (Collins and Kerns 1931; Py et al. 1987). Commercial cultivars have an essentially parthenocarpic fruit that is botanically a syncarp consisting of more than 100 almost completely fused individual fruitlets (Py et al. 1987).

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    M. H. Evans

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Moore, G.A., DeWald, M.G., Evans, M.H. (1992). Micropropagation of Pineapple (Ananas comosus L.). In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) High-Tech and Micropropagation II. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76422-6_24

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