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<strong>Scientific</strong> <strong>Papers</strong>. <strong>Series</strong> B, <strong>Horticulture</strong>. Vol. LVII, 2013Print ISSN 2285-5653, CD-ROM ISSN 2285-5661, Online ISSN 2286-1580, ISSN-L 2285-5653RESEARCHES CONCERNING THE MULTIPLICATION IN VIVO OFLISIANTHUS FOR PROMOTING IN ROMANIAN GREEN HOUSESMaria CANTOR, Rodica POP, Iudita Elisabeta CSETE, Buta ERZSEBET, Anca HUSTIUniversity of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of <strong>Horticulture</strong>, 3-5 ManasturStreet, Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaAbstractCorresponding author email: marcantor@yahoo.comCurrent concerns of plant growers in Romania are to improve the flowers assortment with new species. Our researchesfocused on herbaceous ornamental plant Lisianthus russelianus Hook., (Eustoma grandiflora L.). It is a relatively newspecies in the range of cut and potted flowers for her beautiful colored and vase life. The new species introducedrequires establishing efficient multiplication techniques. The biological material used in the experience were seeds fromSakata company (USA), represented by three cultivars: ‘Echo Lavender’, ‘Flamenco White’ and ‘Mirage Pastel Pink’.Also vegetative multiplication by cuttings was experimented on different culture substrate. Plants were grown ingreenhouses of USAMV Cluj-Napoca and Botanical Garden “Alexandru Borza” Cluj-Napoca. The results obtained willbe using for Romanian growers for diversification their assortment in greenhouse.Key words: eustoma, cultivars, propagation, seeds, cuttings, Gentianaceae.INTRODUCTIONLisianthus is a relatively new species in therange floricultural, Japan being the largestproducer. Lisianthus is a species with greathorticultural potential in Romania.Lisianthus is a moderately cold-tolerant annualor biennial plant native to the southern part ofthe United States and Mexico (Roh andLawson, 1988), belong to Gentianaceae family.In Texas is popularly known as 'blue bell','prairie rose' or 'prairie gentian'. Genus namealludes to the beauty calyx and corolla, theflower look is glossy, satin and beautiful border(„lisieé” in French means smooth, glossy).From crossing wild forms, which shows blueflower petals, resulting in improvement worksform a large flower perfection extremely variedin color and shape.In Europe started to be cultivated only after the1970s. After France, the Netherlands rankssecond in the culture of this beautiful flower. InRomania the first cultures were establishedfrom Companies Codlea and early cultureswere initiated at University of AgronomicSciences Bucharest since 1989 (Cantor, 2009).This plant grows to 50-75 cm in height with20-40 flowers. By nature, Lisianthus initiallyforms a rosette and grows very slowly duringthe winter, stems elongate in the spring, and it303flowers in summer (Roh et al., 1989). In recentdecades, breeders have developed a variety ofcultivars with respect to many traits such asuniform flowering throughout the year, lack ofrosetting, heat tolerance, flower color, andflower size and form, including double flowersetc (Harbaugh, 2006). The importance of thisornamental flower is due to its beauty, diversityof colors, excellent keeping quality, and widerange of different forms (Ali et al., 2008,Kanwar and Kumar, 2009). It is known that tothis genus Lisianthus (Eustoma) are belonging27 species, herbaceous and woody plants. It is arelatively new species in the range of cut andpotted flowers.Due decorative qualities lisianthus culture'sexpansion took in most of Europe and thusflower growers and enthusiasts have expresseda particular interest in this crop. Lisianthusflowers are much used by those who deal withflower arrangements and bouquets for differentoccasions. Lisianthus is highly regarded notonly as a cut flower, and as the plant pot.Currently, in our country, lisianthus culture isnot widespread, although there is marketdemand. Most flowers sold and used by floristsare imported from Holland.For the new species introduced are requiredefficient multiplication techniques to beestablished.

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