Advances in technologies for propagation and domestication of plants of economic and environmental interest in Argentina

Abstract

The Timber Research Laboratory of the Faculty of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences of the National University of La Plata (LIMAD), Argentina, implements the technological development project called Methods and technologies of plant propagation and domestication for the development of a local bioeconomy based on biodiversity. Its objective is to develop, optimize and adapt new methodologies and technologies for the propagation and conservation of plant genetic resources for the production of plants in a new scenario of national bioeconomy. Diversity is at the base of bioeconomy, and often planting plant material for different purposes is scarce. The species covered by this project are: Quercus sp. (exotic forest); Polylepis tarapacana (native forest); Prosopis alpataco. (multipurpose native forestry), Eranthemun pulchelum and Heteropteris angustifolia Griseb (ornamental species of great potential and use in green roofs). This work communicates some of the progress made by applying different approaches to the production of quality plants (seeds, in vitro tissue culture, macro propagation and seed container planting).