Anthurium in vitro: A review

Anthurium (Anthurium spp.) is an ornamental that is widely appreciated around the world, primarily for its showy and colorful spadix. A successful tissue culture protocol for anthurium would allow for the mass clonal propagation of this plant to serve the floriculture pot-plant and cut-flower markets. Success has been achieved in anthurium tissue culture using several explant types, and the morphological and cytogenetic stability of such regenerants has also been tested. This review provides a detailed analysis of the conditions required for the successful culture of anthuriums in vitro. Besides micropropagation, this review also highlights selected current applications of in vitro anthurium biotechnology such as anther culture, polyploidy production, genetic transformation, and their importance in breeding work, synthetic seed technology and cryopreservation.