Lily: Lilium hybrids

Ki Byung Lim, Jaap M. Van Tuyl

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Abstract

Lilium consists of ∼80 species native to the Northern Hemisphere; commercial hybrids are used in a wide range of floricultural products, including flowering potted plants, cut flowers, and garden plants (herbaceous perennial). While lily breeding has been conducted for centuries, most breeding breakthroughs occurred during the past 50 years. These have included interspecific hybridization, intersectional hybridization, and various methods to overcome gametophytic self incompatibility and embryo abortion using pre-fertilization (cut style, grafted style), post-fertilization (ovary-slice culture, ovule culture, embryo culture) methods. The continued use of these and other modern techniques (polyploidization, molecular biology) will ensure creation of new phenotypes for the market.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFlower Breeding and Genetics
Subtitle of host publicationIssues, Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st Century
PublisherSpringer Netherlands
Pages517-537
Number of pages21
ISBN (Electronic)9781402044281
ISBN (Print)9781402044274
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006

Keywords

  • Cut style
  • Embryo rescue
  • Grafted styles
  • Polyploidization
  • Self incompatibility

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