Physiological investigations on regeneration from bulb scale leaves of Lilium speciosum Thun. : thesis presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, University of New Zealand

Abstract

During the past twenty years a vast amount of research work has been carried out on the culture of plant tissues or organs excised from parent bodies. Haberlandt's (53) theories in 1902 on the possibility of procuring growth in such isolated tissues were not put into practice until some twenty years later, when the work of Kotte (63,64) and Robbins (97,98) was partially successful and encouraged further research along these lines. Later work by white (123-125) on excised roots, and by Gautheret (43-46), Nobecourt (84-87), and white (126) on cambial tissue proved that excised plant material could be cultured on a suitable synthetic medium. From that time, an ever-increasing volume of research work has been done on the culture of plant tissue, and the technique has found application in the investigation of a variety of problems in plant physiology.