Encapsulamento de plantas: Sementes sintéticas em orquídeas

Abstract

The Orchidaceae family is known for your species having beautiful flowers and for its economic importance among ornamental plants. However, although the thousands of seeds contained in each capsule (fruit) produced, the conventional propagation of orchids is reduced due to the lack of endosperm, that is, little nutritional reserve, which is supplied in nature with the presence of mycorrhizal fungi, establishing a symbiotic relationship. Synthetic seeds emerge as an alternative to overcome this physiological barrier. Thus, the present work aimed to carry out a bibliographic review regarding the use of the encapsulation method in the production of synthetic seeds in species of the Ochidaceae family. The informations was collected from three bibliographic databases — Web of Science, Scielo and Science Direct. According to the data obtained, the applications of the encapsulation technique cover the segments of mass propagation of plants, benefiting the production chain, allowing the transport of germplasm between laboratories, short and medium term storage, clonal multiplication and stability maintenance genetics, it is also an important tool for the conservation of endangered orchid species.