The Excised Embryo Culture Method for Controlled Seedling Growth of the Sweet Fern, Comptonia peregrina, of the Family Myricaceae

• Main Author: Heino, Helen E.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Minnesota Morris Digital Well 1961
• Subjects: Seedlings > Growth; Myricaceae; Botany; Life Sciences; Breton Island; Canada
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/jmas/vol29/iss1/20; https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2403&context=jmas

Sweet fern, Comptonia peregrina (L.) Coult. according to Fernald (1950), in older literature often referred to as Myrica asplenifolia L. or Comptonia asplenifolia (L.) Ait., is the only species in this genus. It is a low branching, stoloniferous shrub up to a meter and a half tall, with linear-lance...