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Taraxacum officinale Weber (Dandelion): In Vitro Culture, Micropropagation, and the Production of Volatile Metabolites

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Medicinal and Aromatic Plants VI

Part of the book series: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry ((AGRICULTURE,volume 26))

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The genus Taraxacum (family Compositae) is found widely distributed over all five continents, though concentrated in the warmer temperate zone of the northern hemisphere. Plants belonging to this genus grow in many habitats and show considerable diversity in morphological features. For taxonomists, Taraxacum presents many problems, and different taxonomic schemes have been applied to the genus. The Flora Europaea (Tutin et al. 1976) describes 30 species or groups of species. Although the species group Taraxacum officinale Weber sensu latiore (Compositae, Tribe Lactuceae, Section Vulgaria Dahlst) is described in the Flora Europaea and represents over 100 microspecies throughout the British Isles and Ireland (Clapham et al. 1987), it is now generally agreed that taxonomically the name T. officinale has no precise meaning (Webb, pers. comm. 1992). All British forms are apomictic triploids (2n = 24).

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Hook, I.L.I. (1994). Taraxacum officinale Weber (Dandelion): In Vitro Culture, Micropropagation, and the Production of Volatile Metabolites. In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) Medicinal and Aromatic Plants VI. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 26. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57970-7_24

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