Abstract:

Compared with natural seeds, synthetic seeds have many advantages in seedling production and breeding. But the applications of synthetic seeds to commerce are limited because of various reasons. In order to solve them, the author elaborates advances in research on synthetic seeds of fruit crops through advances in making techniques of synthetic seeds and the applications of synthetic seeds to several important fruit crops. The article also brings up the main factors which limit the applications of synthetic seeds to commerce and the main aspects of researching on the technique of synthetic seeds of fruit crops, such as the quality of propagule, encapsulation technology, conversion and survival rate.