Volume 41 Number 2 Article 3 Pages: 54-57
Year 1987 Month 4
Title: Somaclonal Variation as a Tool for the Improvement of Perennial Fruit Crops
Authors: S.G. DeWald and G.A. Moore
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Abstract:
Somaclonal variation has proved useful in the
improvement of certain agricultural crops, but
its applicability to perennial fruit crops has not
yet been demonstrated.
At present, fruit crop
improvement via somaclonal variation is limited
by our ability to manipulate and regenerate
popular clones in vitro.
Rapid progress is being
made in plant tissue culture techniques but little
information is available on the full range of
somaclonal variation that can be induced and
on the various parameters that influence it.
Even though our understanding of tissue culture-induced variation is limited, fruit crop
breeders with amendable in vitro systems that
desire to modify existing cultivars in small,
discrete ways, may want to consider the use of
somaclonal variation in their programs.
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