Poland: IO-PIB starts in vitro production technology of rhubarb seedlings

In the Department of Applied Biology of the Institute of Horticulture - National Research Institute in Skierniewice, work has begun on the reproduction of rhubarb (Rheum rhaponticum L.) vegetatively. Both producers of in vitro seedlings and growers are interested in developing such a technology. The assumption of the project is the development and implementation of an efficient in vitro production technology of high-quality red-tailed rhubarb seedlings. Plants selected on plantations for high anthocyanin content will be tested for the presence of viruses, propagated by organogenesis of shoots from inguinal buds and rooting in vitro, acclimatized to ex vitro conditions in a greenhouse with a controlled microclimate and assessed in terms of genetic stability and performance characteristics (content quantitative and qualitative phenolic substances, including anthocyanins) and then grown on ecological plantations, where research and development will be carried out. In the next stage, ...