Ornamentals

authored by

Thomas Debener, Traud Winkelmann

Abstract

Ornamental crops offer several interesting features for biotechnology. As a highly diverse group of different crops many morphological and physiological traits like e.g. flower structure, colours and scent are unique to certain taxa and have been intensively studied. Furthermore, plant transformation protocols have been published for more then 40 genera. However, beyond basic research commercialisation of transgenic ornamental crops is lagging behind major agricultural and horticultural crops. Here we present a selection of successful approaches that have been used to modify major characters of ornamental crops, some of which may have a market potential in the near future.

Organisation(s)

Section Molecular Plant Breeding
Woody Plant and Propagation Physiology Section

Type

Contribution to book/anthology

Pages

369-391

No. of pages

23

Publication date

2010

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Biotechnology, Forestry, Agronomy and Crop Science

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02391-0_19 (Access: Unknown)