Quantitative Analysis of Adventitious Root Growth Phenotypes in Carnation Stem Cuttings.

ABSTRACT: Carnation is one of the most important species on the worldwide market of cut flowers. Commercial carnation cultivars are vegetatively propagated from terminal stem cuttings that undergo a rooting and acclimation process. For some of the new cultivars that are being developed by ornamental breeders, poor adventitious root (AR) formation limits its commercial scaling-up, due to a significant increase in the production costs. We have initiated a genetical-genomics approach to determine the molecular basis of the differences found between carnation cultivars during adventitious rooting. The detailed characterization of AR formation in several carnation cultivars differing in their rooting losses has been performed (i) during commercial production at a breeders' rooting station and (ii) on a d

SUBMITTER: Birlanga V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4521831 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature