Plant biotechnology program of the Institute of Plant Breeding [College, Laguna, Philippines]
1990
Villareal, R.L. | Rasco, E.T. | Mendoza, E.T. | Barba, R.C. | Zamora, A.B. (Philippines Univ., Los Banos, College, Laguna (Philippines). Coll. of Agriculture)
Since 1975, the Institute of Plant Breeding has been engaged in developing and utilizing tools of biotechnology for crop improvement. In vitro technique ranging from embryo culture, organ culture-tissue culture, anther culture, callus and cell culture as well as protoplast culture were developed for rapid propagation, disease elimination, germplasm conservation or as tools in breeding for recovering haploids, somaclonal variants with resistance to stresses. The in vitro techniques were applied for food crops such as wheat, corn, white potato, banana, citrus, sugarcane, legumes; fiber crops such as ramie and abaca; industrial crops such as bamboo and rattan; ornamentals such as anthuriums and orchids; and tobacco. Expansion of the program will include other crops such as papaya, sweet potato, onion, garlic as well as ornamentals as the mussaendas and foliage plants. Other tools of biotechnology such as restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and nucleic acid hybridization will be developed for monitoring of genotype stability of accessions in the in vitro collections, in establishing variety identity; in seed purity testing, and in indexing plants for diseases.
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