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Somatic embryogenesis in Camellia spp.

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Somatic Embryogenesis in Woody Plants

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Camellia (Theales, Theaceae) is a genus of tropical or subtropical trees and shrubs native to Eastern Asia. Its antiquity has been confirmed by fossils belonging to the Cretaceous period of the Secondary Era. The genus name was created by Linnaeus in the honour of the Jesuit missionary G.J. Kamel,who first recommended to grow the “Japanese rose” in Europe. In his Systerna Naturae of 1735, Linnaeus gave the name Camellia tsubaki to the plant indegenous to Japan as the tsubaki and it only acquired its present systematic name, Camellia japonica, in his Species Plantarum, in which he also described the tea plant, C. sinensis, under the name Thea sinensis. The systematics of the genus have since varied as the number of known members has increased; in particular, Chang and Bartolomew (1984) have carried out a major revision, grouping some 200 recognized species in four subgenera and twenty sections.

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Vieitez, A.M. (1995). Somatic embryogenesis in Camellia spp.. In: Jain, S.M., Gupta, P.K., Newton, R.J. (eds) Somatic Embryogenesis in Woody Plants. Forestry Sciences, vol 44-46. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0491-3_14

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