Anne Arundel Community College

Journal of Emerging Scholarship

in vitro

  • Methods Used for Large-Scale in vitro Cultivation of Calopogon tuberosus Orchids from Seed to Corm

    Alex Bradford, Effie Gentry, and Dr. Paul Bushmann

    The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) entered into agreement with the Environmental Center at Anne Arundel Community College (AACC) for in-house propagation technicians (“we/us”) to grow Calopogon tuberosus orchid seed into 1,000 usable dormant corms for SERC’s Classroom Cultivation: Exploring Plant Ecology program. The cultivation was a 10-month process, involving… Read more →