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The previous presentations in this symposium have amply documented the application of microculture in the production of numerous herbaceous crops. However, the number of woody shrubs, trees, and conifers now in commercial micropropagation is much more limited. One significant factor leading to this difference is that there has been proportionately much less research and time spent in applying tissue culture techniques to woody perennial crop plants than to their herbaceous counterparts. When significant time has been devoted to micropropagating woody perennial plants (as with tree fruits), good progress has been observed. However, there appears to be fundamental problems based on the biology of these plants that also accounts for the relative difficulty in their in vitro culture.
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McCown, B.H. (1986). Woody Ornamentals, Shade Trees, and Conifers. In: Zimmerman, R.H., Griesbach, R.J., Hammerschlag, F.A., Lawson, R.H. (eds) Tissue culture as a plant production system for horticultural crops. Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4444-2_28
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