
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Barlass, M 
A1  - Grant, WJR 
A1  - Skene, KGM 
T1  - Shoot Regeneration <I>in vitro</I> From Native Australian Fruit-Bearing Trees - Quandong and Plum Bush
JF  - Australian Journal of Botany
JO  - Aust. J. Bot.
Y1  - 1980
VL  - 28
IS  - 4
SP  - 405
EP  - 409
KW  - 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/BT9800405 
N2  - 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. 
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