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Establishment of test guidelines for tree varieties and new variety research and development (4/5)

  • Date of declaration:2017-11-10
  • PI:Sheng-Feng Hung
  • Division:Silviculture Division
Research title
Science and Technology Programs(2016)
KeyWord
plant variety right;trait investigation;Taxus sumatrana;Paulownia fortunei;Cinnamomoum osmophloeum;
Abstract
Cinnamomum osmophloeum ct. cinnamon and linalool are two chemical races as valuable used in commercial market. There are many commercial products made from cinnamon races, however, beverage and animal feed industries want the races without coumarin. Linalool race contains unique pure S-form linalool with biological activity function in the world. This year the guidelines for C. osmophloeum was applied to announce an official variety of plant variety right in June and accepted on 2 Nov with minor revision. Taxus sumatrana 'Taiyew no. 3’was applied to be a new variety in June, it was accepted with minor revision on 2 Nov. Paulownia hybrids with witches' broom resistance has confirmed in field test. It is very important to establish the guidelines for Paulownia varieties. To test varieties of Paulownia trees in greenhouse, the flower spikes grafted onto seedlings to observe the morphological characters of flowers, fruits, seeds, and leave veins of seedlings by using man-made pollination. We found some characters could identify among hybrids and become the major items of guidelines.