An efficient method for the micropropagation of Agave species.
Despite their economic importance, the Agave spp. have not been genetically improved. This is probably owing to the fact that they have very long life cycles and many of them have an inefficient sexual reproduction mechanism. Micropropagation offers an alternative to this problem through the efficient cloning of selected high-yielding "elite" plants. We report here an efficient method to micropropagate agaves and a strategy for the management of large scale production that has been successfully applied to several Agave spp.
Robert
Manuel L
ML
Unidad de Biotecnología, Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán, México.
Herrera-Herrera
José Luis
JL
Castillo
Eduardo
E
Ojeda
Gabriel
G
Herrera-Alamillo
Miguel Angel
MA