
%0 Journal Article
%A Barlass, M 
%A Grant, WJR 
%A Skene, KGM 
%T Shoot Regeneration <I>in vitro</I> From Native Australian Fruit-Bearing Trees - Quandong and Plum Bush
%J Australian Journal of Botany
%D 1980/09/01
%V 28
%N 4
%P 405-409
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/BT9800405
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/BT9800405 
%X Explants from quandong (Santalum acuminatum) and plum bush ( S. lanceolatum), native Australian trees, regenerated shoots in aseptic culture. In the presence of cytokinin. shoots were produced in quantity from all cultured aerial parts of quandong seedlings. Individually cultured nodes of I-yr-old plum bush and quandong plants proliferated axillary shoots, while internodal pieces produced adventitious shoot growth. Shoots were also regenerated from explants of a 5-yr-old mature quandong tree. Excised in vitro-grown shoots produced roots in culture on a medium containing indolebutyric acid at pH 4 following shoot etiolation. These results offer the promise of clonal propagation in species in which conventional vegetative propagation by cuttings has not been reported, and will provide a useful adjunct to a quandong breeding program to develop edible fruit and nuts in semiarid areas. 
