Claim · model-written summary
Routine industry use of micropropagated ginger requires improvements in rhizome size and production cost.
- Taxon
- ginger
Zingiber officinalee0 - Outcome
- routine use in the ginger industrye0
- Qualifier
- Factors that can improve rhizome size, while reducing production costs, need to be identifiede0
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Verbatim
e0“Factors that can improve rhizome size, while reducing production costs, need to be identified before micropropagated plants can be recommended for routine use in the ginger industry as a source of disease and pest-free planting material.”
Title
Field evaluation of micropropagated and conventionally propagated ginger in subtropical Queensland
MK Smith; SD Hamill Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 1996. doi:10.1071/ea9960347
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Observation First-generation micropropagated ginger had lower rhizome yield than seed-derived plants.
- Observation First-generation micropropagated ginger had smaller rhizome knobs.
- Observation First-generation micropropagated ginger had more roots.
- Observation Micropropagated ginger had a greater shoot to rhizome ratio than seed-derived plants.
- Observation Micropropagated ginger had smaller shoots than seed-derived plants.
- Observation Micropropagated ginger had more shoots per plant than seed-derived plants.
- Observation Three hormone-free subcultures did not remove the unusual shoot morphology of micropropagated ginger.
- Observation Seed collected from micropropagated ginger was smaller than seed from seed-derived plants.
- Observation By the second generation ex vitro, the treatments showed no significant differences.