In vitro crop physiology

Journal Title: Biotecnología Vegetal - Year 2001, Vol 1, Issue 1

Abstract

The culture procedures described up to the eighties, did not made any mention to the environmental control of in vitro plant development. However, growth rate, development and many of the physiologic-morphologic features of the in vitro grown plants are influenced by the culture vessel. The increasing knowledge about the environmental control of culture vessels under sterile conditions, is helping to change micorpropagation procedures. The in vitro environment with lower rate ventilation, brings about low flow rates of matter and energy, with minimum variations of temperature, high relative humidity and large daily changes of the concentration of CO2 inside the culture vessel. The type of culture vessel (size, shape, fabric and closing system) can influence the evolution of the atmosphere along the time of culture. Although submitted to different stresses factors plant can be grown in vitro, but plants can be faulty in their anatomy, morphology and physiology. As a consequence, these plants shown a phenotype unable to survive to ex vitro conditions. Different strategies can be used to control the atmosphere along the different phases of micropropagation, in heterotrophic, mixotrophic or autotrophic cultures. The election of the best strategy will be based on different factors as species, number of transplantes required, or quality-price relationship.

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Maria Jesús Cañal, Roberto Rodríguez, Belén Fernández, Ricardo Sánchez-Tames y Juan Pedro Majada

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Maria Jesús Cañal, Roberto Rodríguez, Belén Fernández, Ricardo Sánchez-Tames y Juan Pedro Majada (2001). In vitro crop physiology. Biotecnología Vegetal, 1(1), -. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-697672