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The emphasis in this overview will be on disease and microbial contamination management in relation to the stages in micropropagation (Fig. 1); however, it should be recognized that micropropagation is an integrated process the objective of which is to produce, at an economic price, healthy propagules that develop into vigorous plants with normal or improved characteristics. In the production of clean microplants, attention must be paid to the selection of vigorous parental clones, to the establishment of cultures of appropriate health status, to multiplication with contaminant screening and to the production of vigorous propagules for establishment that will resist damping off disease and that will grow on to have normal or improved cropping characteristics.
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Cassells, A.C. (1997). Pathogen and Microbial Contamination Management in Micropropagation — An Overview. In: Cassells, A.C. (eds) Pathogen and Microbial Contamination Management in Micropropagation. Developments in Plant Pathology, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8951-2_1
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