A MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH PROGRAM DIRECTED TOWARD UTILIZATION OF SOLAR ENERGY THROUGH BIOCONVERSION OF RENEWABLE RESOURCES

摘要

Techniques were developed for mass cloning American sycamore (Platens occident tails) using single buds from dormant and active twigs of onearid two-year-old sprouts and young trees for use in physiological studies and for multilink selected genotypes in clone banks. Strong positive correlations were obtained between callus formation, and growth of cells (fresh and dry weights) on a defined basal medium with the growth performance of 5-year-old trees in the field previously selected on the basis of phenotypic expression of vigor (slow and fast growing clones).