ISHS Acta Horticulturae 530: International Symposium on Methods and Markers for Quality Assurance in Micropropagation
COST 822 - THE DIRECTORY OF EUROPEAN PLANT TISSUE CULTURE — 1996 |
| Author: | F.O. Ríordáin |
| Keywords: | European laboratories, microprogation |
| Abstract:
A survey was carried out during 1996–1997 of plant tissue culture laboratories in 23 European countries by COST 822. A total of 505 laboratories, 193 commercial and 312 official were located. This shows a small recovery in the number of commercial laboratories, but a drop in the official laboratories involved in plant tissue culture for the first time (Ó Ríordáin, 1997). The total number of plant names, species and cultivar, being worked on increased from 1833 in 1993 to 1966 in 1996, a 8.79 % increase. Prunus is still the most important plant in both commercial and official laboratories, having 76 entries for commercial and 112 for official laboratories. The total production of plants produced was 179 million, an increase of nearly 10 % since 1993. This is a mean production per laboratory of 0.54 million. The industry involves 3337 people, which is a small increase in the number over the last 3 years. The main interest of 39% of laboratories was rapid multiplication of plants. | |
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