Overview
- Serves as a comprehensive reference on orchid conservation and propagation
- Provides a theoretical background with practical protocols applying current scientific knowledge
- Synthesizes a number of related topics that are useful to orchid growing and appeal to a large audience with different backgrounds
Part of the book series: Springer Protocols Handbooks (SPH)
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Table of contents (27 protocols)
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Orchid Seeds in Plant Propagation and Conservation
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Orchid Micropropagation
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Special Techniques
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Edward Chee-Tak Yeung received his B. Sc. Honors degree from the University of Guelph and a Ph.D. in Biology from Yale University. After spending one year as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ottawa, Dr. Yeung joined the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Canada, where he is now a Faculty Professor. His primary research interests involvethe reproductive biology of higher plants, especially the structural and physiological aspects of embryo development. Professor Yeung is the recipient of the Lawson Medal in recognition of cumulative, life-time contributions to Canadian botany from the Canadian Botanical Association in 2014. He has co-edited two books with colleagues, entitled “Plant Embryo Culture” and “Plant Microtechniques and Protocols”. Both are published by Springer Nature, New York.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Orchid Propagation: From Laboratories to Greenhouses—Methods and Protocols
Editors: Yung-I Lee, Edward Chee-Tak Yeung
Series Title: Springer Protocols Handbooks
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7771-0
Publisher: Humana New York, NY
eBook Packages: Springer Protocols
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-7770-3Published: 09 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-9280-5Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-7771-0Published: 08 May 2018
Series ISSN: 1949-2448
Series E-ISSN: 1949-2456
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 524
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 134 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Anatomy/Development, Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Plant Biochemistry, Plant Ecology