POTENTIAL NEW FLORAL CROPS NATIVE TO KOREA: REVIEW ON THE GENERA LYCORIS, LILIUM AND PULSATILLA

J.K. Suh, A.K. Lee, M.S. Roh, Y.H. Joung, J.S. Lee
Many new varieties of flowers were bred utilizing the gene pools of the flora native to Korea. Among many beautiful flowers, Lilium, Pulsatilla, and Lycoris has been extensively evaluated to understand the genetic diversity, origin of the rare and potentially endangered, and to introduce as a new cultivars with or without any further improvement. Among many Lycoris species, L. chejuensis that showed some color variation and L. uydoensis can be introduced as a new potential cultivar without any further breeding. Lycoris koreana could be used to increase fertility in breeding program. Among 10 Lilium species distributed in Korea, L. hansonii is only endemic to Korea. Improvement to reduce the odor and to grow in a pot successfully, further improvements are required. Pulsatilla tongkangensis Lee et T.C. Lee is recently introduced as a putative species. This species is grown in calcified rock cavities in two sites in Korea. However, a great variation in flower color, shape, and the orientation of flower buds suggested that this could be a hybrid population involving P. koreana (Y. Yabe ex Nakai) Nakai ex T. Mori. Clonal propagation of selected P. tongkangensis or production of F1 seeds are needed to successfully introduce this rare and unique plant.
Suh, J.K., Lee, A.K., Roh, M.S., Joung, Y.H. and Lee, J.S. (2013). POTENTIAL NEW FLORAL CROPS NATIVE TO KOREA: REVIEW ON THE GENERA LYCORIS, LILIUM AND PULSATILLA. Acta Hortic. 1000, 337-344
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2013.1000.46
https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2013.1000.46
evaluation, genetic diversity, genetic variation, hybrid origin, introgression, molecular markers, selection, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)
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