BELTSVILLE, Md. ‘Guardian,’ which are widely
Strawberry plants are rejuvenated grown in the U.S.
by propagation in test tubes, ac— This research was awarded the
cording to USD A researchers, George M. Darrow Award for
Gene' Galletta and Richard Zina* excellence in viticulture and small
merman. Propagation in fruits research. The award was
laboratory increases presented on August 12, at the
strawberry yields, and the berries American Society for Horticultural
taste as delicious as fruit produced Science meeting at lowa State
by conventional methods. University, Ames, lowa. A paper
Although tissue-culture dpgrrifaing the research, “Field
propagation has been practiced in performance and Phenotypic
Europe for several years, until Stability of Tissue Culture
npw it had not been tested with propagated Strawberries,” was
U.S. varieties. Galletta and published in the September, 1961,
Zimmerman of USDA’s edition of the Journal of the
Agricultural Research Service, American Society for Horticultural
working with Harry J. Swartz at
the University of Maryland, - Strawberries, are usually
demonstrated last year that the propagated by cutting runners and
technique stimulates yield in- rooting them, said Galletta. A
creases for strawberries varieties high-yielding plant will produce
‘Earliglow,’ ‘Redchief,’ and 100 new plants in a year.
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strawberry plant, grown by tissue
culture, can produce six shoots in
only three weeks. Then each shoot,
when transferred into another
tissue-culture flask, produces
three to six more shoots in the next
three-week period. In tissue
culture flasks the plants are fur
nished vitamins, minerals, and
hormones that stimulate growth.
“With tissue culture,
theoretically, you can get a million
new plants in a year,” said
Galletta.
In a side-by-side comparison, the
researchers tested strawberry
plants from tissue culture and
from runners. They grew the
plants in matted rows in which
plants were set out four feet apart
and allowed to fill in the two-feet
square beds.
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The first year, the tissue
cultured plants produced SO per
cent more runners in the field than
plants from runners. The tissue
cultrued plants also produced 24
percent more strawberries,
Galletta said.
Although the fruit from the
tissue-cultured plants are smaller,
the berries were otherwise normal.
They had the same taste, shape,
color, and texture as fruit grown
by conventional methods. And the
tissue-cultured plants were more
uniform and survived better in the
field, Zimmerman found.
Tissue-cultured strawberries
cost more than plants produced
from runners, which may
discourage some growers from
using them. But nurseries are
likely to profit from this new
technique, since the invigorated,
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tissue-cultured plants produce
more runners in the first year,
Galletta said. Nurserymen,
therefore, could provide more
plantstogrowers.
When runners from tissue
cultured plants are transplanted in
their second year, they produce the
same number of runners as plants
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So the use of tissue-cultured plants
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the density of plants in the
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