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Cell and Tissue Culture in Forestry pp 400–410Cite as

Micropropagation of Casuarina

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Part of the book series: Forestry Sciences ((FOSC,volume 24-26))

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Casuarina species are members of the family Casuarinaceae, which was considered to be a primitive angiosperm, but lately was found to be closely related to Betulaceae and Fagaceae (10, 20, 25, 30). Casuarinaceae is a small family of four genera, which includes many species of evergreen trees and shrubs with a wide natural distribution in Australia, Southeast Asia, Polynesia and New Caledonia (14, 26). Casuarinas are characterized by scale-like univeined leaves arranged in whorls on green spreading branchlets (3, 25). Flowers are unisexual and plants are monocious in most species (23). The staminate flowers are borne in catkins and the pistillate flowers are spherically arranged on cylindrical inflorescent heads (cones). Seeds are formed inside samara fruits, which are enclosed by two valves (20, 21, 24, 29). Casuarinas are able to fix atmospheric nitrogen through symbiosis with an actinomycete (Frankia) (11, 23).

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  1. Canadian Forestry Service, Canada

    J. M. Bonga

  2. Davis, Department of Pomology, University of California, 1035 Wickson Hall, 95616, Davis, Calif., USA

    Don J. Durzan

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Aboel-Nil, M.M. (1987). Micropropagation of Casuarina. In: Bonga, J.M., Durzan, D.J. (eds) Cell and Tissue Culture in Forestry. Forestry Sciences, vol 24-26. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0992-7_30

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