Using In Situ Symbiotic Seed Germination to Restore Over-collected Medicinal Orchids in Southwest China.

ABSTRACT: Due to increasing demand for medicinal and horticultural uses, the Orchidaceae is in urgent need of innovative and novel propagation techniques that address both market demand and conservation. Traditionally, restoration techniques have been centered on ex situ asymbiotic or symbiotic seed germination techniques that are not cost-effective, have limited genetic potential and often result in low survival rates in the field. Here, we propose a novel in situ advanced restoration-friendly program for the endangered epiphytic orchid species Dendrobium devonianum, in which a series of in situ symbiotic seed germination trials base on conspecific fungal isolates were conducted at two sites in Yunnan Province, China. We found that percentage germination varied among tre

SUBMITTER: Shao SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5461763 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature