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SCIENTIA HORTICULTURAE
Volume 130, Issue 1, Pages 303-308Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scienta.2011.06.040
Keywords
Grammatophyllum speciosum; Dendrobium draconis; Orchid; Mycorrhiza; Seed germination
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- Thailand Research Fund
- Office of the Higher Education Commission
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In vitro symbiotic seed germination is an important tool not only for the study of orchid-fungus specificity but also for the production of mycobiont-infected healthy seedlings that could be valuable for both horticultural and conservation purposes. The current study compared effectiveness of eight putative orchid mycorrhizal fungi obtained from mature orchids in the genera Paphiopedilum, Cymbidium and Dendrobium, in promoting in vitro seed germination and protocorm development of Grammatophyllum speciosum Blume and Dendrobium draconis Rchb. f., native Thai orchids. The developmental stages of seeds and protocorms cultured on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium, oat meal agar (OMA), or OMA inoculated with one of the eight fungal isolates were evaluated weekly. Two isolates of Epulorhiza repens (Bernard) Moore (=anamorphic species of Tulasnella calospora (Boud.) Juel), Da-KP-0-1 and Pv-PC-1-1, were found to be the most effective fungi in promoting protocorm development of G. speciosum. At week 13, protocorms co-cultured with either one of these two fungal isolates, on the average, were significantly more advanced than those sown on OMA. Protocorms co-cultured with isolate Pv-PC-1-1 were also significantly more advanced than those cultured on MS medium. For D. draconis seed germination, three fungal isolates of different anamorphic species of Tulasnella, C1-DT-TC-1, Pv-PC-1-1, and C3-DT-TC-2, were found to be the most effective fungi in promoting protocorm development. However, none of these fungal isolates outperformed MS medium. Additionally, the compatibility between the fungal isolates tested and the two orchid species was discussed. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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