MORPHOGENESIS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY OF AFRICAN VIOLET (SAINTPAULIA IONANTHA H. WENDL.)

Jaime A. TEIXEIRA DA SILVA; Yaser Hassan DEWIR; Adhityo WICAKSONO; Mafatlal M. KHER; Haenghoon KIM; Munetaka HOSOKAWA; Songjun ZENG

Journal of Plant Development (Dec 2016)

MORPHOGENESIS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY OF AFRICAN VIOLET (SAINTPAULIA IONANTHA H. WENDL.)

Jaime A. TEIXEIRA DA SILVA,
Yaser Hassan DEWIR,
Adhityo WICAKSONO,
Mafatlal M. KHER,
Haenghoon KIM,
Munetaka HOSOKAWA,
Songjun ZENG

Affiliations

Jaime A. TEIXEIRA DA SILVA: P. O. Box 7, Miki-cho post office, Ikenobe 3011-2, Kagawa-ken, 761-0799 – Japan
Yaser Hassan DEWIR: Plant Production Department, P.O. Box 2460, College of Food & Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451 – Saudi Arabia; Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafr El-Sheikh 33516 – Egypt
Adhityo WICAKSONO: Laboratory of Paper Coating and Converting, Centre for Functional Material, Åbo Akademi University, Porthaninkatu 3, 20500 Turku – Finland
Mafatlal M. KHER: B. R. Doshi School of Biosciences, Sardar Patel University, Sardar Patel Maidan, Vadtal Rd., P.O. Box 39, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, 388120 – India
Haenghoon KIM: Department of Well-being Resources, Sunchon National University, Suncheon, 540-742 – Korea
Munetaka HOSOKAWA: Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502 – Japan
Songjun ZENG: Key Laboratory of South China Agricultural Plant Molecular Analysis and Gene Improvement, South China Botanical Garden, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650 – China

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 23, no. 1
pp. 15 – 25

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African violet (Saintpaulia ionantha H. Wendl.) has been domesticated, bred and commercialized. It is the most famous and popular of the Saintpaulia species, its ornamental value arising from its attractive leaves and flowers. African violet plants are easy to propagate by adventitious organ regeneration and are very sensitive to environmental factors including light, temperature, humidity, CO2 concentration and photoperiod. This review offers a short synthesis on advances made in conventional vegetative propagation by adventitious organ regeneration, select early historical in vitro developmental perspectives, and vegetative and reproductive development of African violet.

development; Gesneriaceae; thin cell layers; vegetative propagation

Published in Journal of Plant Development

ISSN: 2065-3158 (Print); 2066-9917 (Online)
Publisher: Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi
Country of publisher: Romania
LCC subjects: Agriculture: Plant culture; Science: Botany
Website: http://www.plant-journal.uaic.ro/

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