Gerbera, a popular commercial cut flower with vibrant and striking colours has gained immense popularity in the floriculture industry. They are widely cultivated in various regions, making them available throughout the year. As a better alternative to conventional propagation methods (via seeds and rhizomes), plant tissue culture serves as way to avail large-scale, uniform, disease-free plantlets for commercial cultivation as well as to develop novel genotypes. In addition, it ensures production of healthy plantlets throughout the year in limited space. Based on the plant tissue culture techniques, the polyploidization, mutagenesis and genetic transformation pave a path for creation of variation and eventually enhancing the ornamental traits to address the consumers’ preferences and also facilitates in developing stress tolerant lines thereby minimising the losses during cultivation maintaining the quality of the flowers. This comprehensive review article presents an overview of the recent advancements on genetic improvement of gerbera via various cutting-edge plant tissue culture-based tools and techniques that contribute in enhancing the quality and efficiency of gerbera cultivation, meeting the demands of the floriculture industry while addressing the challenges of changing environment and resource limitations.

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非洲菊植物组织培养和遗传改良的趋势


非洲菊是一种流行的商业切花，其色彩鲜艳、引人注目，在花卉行业中广受欢迎。各地广泛栽培，一年四季均可供应。作为传统繁殖方法（通过种子和根茎）的更好替代方法，植物组织培养可以为商业化种植提供大规模、均匀、无病的幼苗，并开发新的基因型。此外，它还确保在有限的空间内全年生产健康的植株。基于植物组织培养技术，多倍化、诱变和遗传转化为创造变异铺平了道路，最终增强观赏性状以满足消费者的喜好，也有利于开发抗逆品系，从而最大限度地减少栽培过程中的损失，保持鲜花的品质。这篇综合综述文章概述了通过各种基于植物组织培养的尖端工具和技术在非洲菊遗传改良方面取得的最新进展，这些进展有助于提高非洲菊种植的质量和效率，满足花卉行业的需求，同时解决不断变化的环境和资源限制的挑战。