Current situation and prospects of study on artificial induction and reversion of bamboo flowering

Key words: 
• bamboo flowering /
• induction /
• reversion /
• biological characferistic /
• tissue culture /
• cytokinins

Abstract: Bamboo is a versatile species with great economic value .But it normally has a long flowering cycle and the cycle is unpreditable , most species flower and produce seeds only once then die in its lifetime , this peculiarity has hampered the study of flowering behavior and many other aspects in bamboo .The study of artificial induction and reversion of bamboo flowering not only provides a possibility to acquire bamboo seeds annually , but also an attempt at the cross breeding , typology , and investigating of flowering mechanism in bamboo .So far , bamboo flowering in tissue culture has been induced successfully in more than eight species based on published reports from India , Belgium , China , Japan etc , and artificial reversion of bamboo flowering been reported .Based on the model systems of the induction and reversion of bamboo flowering , the actor of influencing induction and reversion of bamboo flowering in tissue culture has been studied , the attempt in hybridization , investigating of flowering mechanism are in progress .It is no doubt that the bamboo research will make great progress with the advance in the study of bamboo flowering .