Abstract
A structural analysis of the plant production industry (Jones 1986; Table 1) shows that micropropagation has been integrated into the industry at several levels. Some laboratories (Type 1) sell proliferating cultures or rooted in vitro plantlets to conventional growing-on nurseries while others (Type 2) sell acclimatised young plants. A further strategy (Type 3) is to increase the value-added aspect of production by growing on the plants in-house (Harper 1988).
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Cassells, A.C. (1991). Setting Up a Commercial Micropropagation Laboratory. In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) High-Tech and Micropropagation I. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 17. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76415-8_2
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