A PROCESS FOR PRODUCING VIRUS-FREE,YOUNG CAPSICUM ANNUM PLANTS

摘要

A method for producing virus-free red pepper plant seedlings characterized by cutting a red pepper plant under growing at the growing point, bringing the sections of the obtained slices into contact with the section of a raising stock obtained by cutting an aseptically grown solanaceous plant seedling, thus elongating the red pepper slices on the section of the raising stock, and growing red pepper seedlings from the shoots thus elongated. This method enables for the first time the apical meristem culture of red pepper plants, in particular, pimento. This method also makes it possible to produce virus-free red pepper plant seedlings through vegetative propagation.