FIFTY YEARS OF ASPARAGUS BREEDING VALORIZED THROUGH TWELVE YEARS OF VITROCULTURE-II TWELVE YEARS OF VITROCULTURE

The industrially using of the micropropagation for this plant was hindered by the quantity and quality of in vitro rooting which conditionned the rate of acclimatization.

This matter is today solved and it is now possible to clone the asparagus by micropropagation in the perspective of plantations with plants strictly identical to one very good specimen.

The increasing of production and slight cost price of vitroplants made that using this way of propagation of the asparagus is economically competitive with traditionnal reproduction by seeds.

The mastery of the asparagus micropropagation can also be very important for the scientists who would work on isolation of genes of resistance or tolerance to diseases and their introduction in one agronomically performant genotype of Asparagus officinalis L.