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AVAILABILITY OF PLANTING MATERIALS
Teak plants can be raised using either seeds or vegetative tissues (stumps, branch cuttings etc.). Plants raised from seeds collected at random tend to show fairly wide variability in growth, while vegetative propagation using cuttings and tissue culture ensures production of uniform planting materials of desired qualities. However, seeds are very im- portant to maintain a broad genetic base. To obtain fairly uniform planting ma- terials from seeds, seedling or clonal seed orchards of good-quality trees have to be raised for seed collection.
The large variation in growth condi- tions within the natural range of teak suggests that there is a likelihood of substantial genetic variability among provenances. Furthermore, the long- term cultivation of teak in regions out- side its endemic area (e.g. in Java, Indo- nesia) suggests the possible existence
of land races that are specifically adapted to the regions to which teak has been introduced.
To examine these questions, an inter- national series of provenance trials was established (Keiding, Wellendorf and Lauridsen, 1986; Kjaer, Lauridsen and Wellendorf, 1995; Kjaer and Foster, 1996). These trials showed that, in gen- eral, local seed sources should be pre- ferred when teak is established within the area of its natural distribution (White, 1991). Although local sources did not always give the fastest growth rates, they consistently gave good per- formance relative to seedlots intro- duced from elsewhere.
In contrast, for regions outside the natural range of teak, local seedlots were sometimes very poor for some charac- ters of commercial significance and were thus unsuitable for use in devel- oping commercial-scale plantations. Of particular interest, however, was the broad adaptation of provenances from southern India and Indonesia, which exhibited good survival, growth rates and form.
At present, planting material of the desired quality and of known genetic source is not available in sufficient quantity. There is significant demand for good-quality planting stock for plantation programmes not only in Malaysia, but also in the Philippines, Viet Nam, Thailand, Myanmar, Indo- nesia and India.
Plant stocks currently being used for the Malaysian plantation programmes principally originate from local uniden- tified sources or from Thailand. There is no accreditation to ensure that the material comes from a reliable source of good-quality germplasm or, indeed, from the source named by the supplier. This presents a risk for plantation man- agers. FRIM is currently working with some reliable commercial nurseries and plant propagators to produce large enough quantities of high-quality plants to meet Malaysia’s needs.
We are one and only high yielding tissue culture teak plant producers across the Globe.
For tissue culture teak plants
Contact
BALAKRISHNA MUTHUKURI
MOTHER AGRI BIOTECH LABORATORIES INDIA PVT. LTD.
BANGALORE.
+919035003471
+91 9908286565
Teak plants can be raised using either seeds or vegetative tissues (stumps, branch cuttings etc.). Plants raised from seeds collected at random tend to show fairly wide variability in growth, while vegetative propagation using cuttings and tissue culture ensures production of uniform planting materials of desired qualities. However, seeds are very im- portant to maintain a broad genetic base. To obtain fairly uniform planting ma- terials from seeds, seedling or clonal seed orchards of good-quality trees have to be raised for seed collection.
The large variation in growth condi- tions within the natural range of teak suggests that there is a likelihood of substantial genetic variability among provenances. Furthermore, the long- term cultivation of teak in regions out- side its endemic area (e.g. in Java, Indo- nesia) suggests the possible existence
of land races that are specifically adapted to the regions to which teak has been introduced.
To examine these questions, an inter- national series of provenance trials was established (Keiding, Wellendorf and Lauridsen, 1986; Kjaer, Lauridsen and Wellendorf, 1995; Kjaer and Foster, 1996). These trials showed that, in gen- eral, local seed sources should be pre- ferred when teak is established within the area of its natural distribution (White, 1991). Although local sources did not always give the fastest growth rates, they consistently gave good per- formance relative to seedlots intro- duced from elsewhere.
In contrast, for regions outside the natural range of teak, local seedlots were sometimes very poor for some charac- ters of commercial significance and were thus unsuitable for use in devel- oping commercial-scale plantations. Of particular interest, however, was the broad adaptation of provenances from southern India and Indonesia, which exhibited good survival, growth rates and form.
At present, planting material of the desired quality and of known genetic source is not available in sufficient quantity. There is significant demand for good-quality planting stock for plantation programmes not only in Malaysia, but also in the Philippines, Viet Nam, Thailand, Myanmar, Indo- nesia and India.
Plant stocks currently being used for the Malaysian plantation programmes principally originate from local uniden- tified sources or from Thailand. There is no accreditation to ensure that the material comes from a reliable source of good-quality germplasm or, indeed, from the source named by the supplier. This presents a risk for plantation man- agers. FRIM is currently working with some reliable commercial nurseries and plant propagators to produce large enough quantities of high-quality plants to meet Malaysia’s needs.
We are one and only high yielding tissue culture teak plant producers across the Globe.
For tissue culture teak plants
Contact
BALAKRISHNA MUTHUKURI
MOTHER AGRI BIOTECH LABORATORIES INDIA PVT. LTD.
BANGALORE.
+919035003471
+91 9908286565
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