ABSTRACT
Nieves Fernandez-Garcia, Jesus Garcia de la Garma and Enrique Olmos*
Introduction
In vitro micropropagation is a common technique in many commercial enterprises dedicated to plant production and billions of plants are produced by different micropropagation techniques. Hyperhydricity is one of the main abnormalities observed in plants grown in semi-liquid and liquid culture, especially in shoots multiplicated in different bioreactor models
Department of Abiotic Stress and Plant Pathology, Centro de Edafologia y Biologia Aplicada del Segura, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientifi cas (CEBAS-CSIC), P.O. Box 164. 30100-Murcia, Spain, Fax: 00 34 968 396213. *Corresponing author, E-mail: eolmos@cebas.csic.es
(Correll et al. 2001). This causes losses in the commercial micropropagation industry, and limits the application of in vitro micropropagation methods for conservation purposes.
