title: Bacterial stimulation of adventitious rooting on in vitro cultured slash pine (Pinus elliottii Engelm.) seedling explants.
abstract: A bacterium has been isolated that initiates adventitious rooting when co-cultured under in vitro conditions with seedling-produced hypocotylary explants of slash pine (Pinus elliottii). Rooting efficiencies produced through bacterial-explant co-culture range from approximately 15% to greater than 90% over non-treated controls. Explant exposure to the root inducing bacterium has produced no obvious pathology in the regenerated plantlets. Seedling explants rooted by bacterial-explant co-culture have been successfully transitioned to ambient greenhouse conditions.
authors.affiliation: Plant Physiology and Genetics Program and Department of Botany, The University of Tennessee, 437 Hesler Biology Bldg., 37996-1100, Knoxville, TN, USA.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Burns
authors.forename: O J
authors.initials: OJ
authors.lastname: Schwarz