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In vitro flowering of Bambusa edulis and subsequent plantlet survival

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Bamboo shoots could be induced to flower in vitro, but there is very little information on the effect of growth components on flowering. In this study, multiple shoots grown from in vitro, spikelet-derived, somatic embryos of Bambusa edulis were used for in vitro flowering. Multiple shoots flowered on Murashige and Skoog medium (MS) with 0.5 mM thidiazuron (TDZ) and 30 g l sucrose. Different

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  1. Chung-Chih Lin

    Present address: Department of Applied Living Science, Taichung Health and Management University, Taichung 413, Taiwan, ROC

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  1. Academia Sinica, Institute of Botany, Taipei 115, Taiwan,ROC

    Chung-Chih Lin

  2. Department of Life Sciences, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung 402, Taiwan, ROC

    Chuoun-Sea Lin

  3. Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan,ROC

    Wei-Chin Chang

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Lin, CC., Lin, CS. & Chang, WC. In vitro flowering of Bambusa edulis and subsequent plantlet survival. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 72, 71–78 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021281217589

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