Bogor Botanical Gardens successfully perform artificial pollination on carrion flower species.
Pollination is made for the corpse flower species (Amorpophallus titanum) has been successfully developed by the Bogor Botanical Gardens. And on Tuesday 21-05-2013 in celebration of 196 years of the Bogor Botanical Gardens to the displacement of soil media polybag corpse flower artificial pollination. Head of the Bogor Botanical Gardens "Mustaid Siregar" states that the process of artificial pollination on the corpse flower is successful the first time in Indonesia.
According to researchers cultivation corpse flower "Dian Latifah" states that artificial penerbukan is done with two different parent plants corpse flower. The first flowers blooming in November 2011 and the second flowers bloom in February 2012. Flowers that bloom in 2011 donated pollen to the flower that blooms in February 2012. To perform artificial pollination, pollen collected from flowers first saved first. Having examined the pollen and certainly still can pollinate, Dian and team wiped the second flower ripe female sex cells.
Pollination is done at night with a brush at the time of the female sex cells have matured. How to detect that the corpse flower plants have matured female sex cell is the typical strong smell carrion and dead flowers in the flower that becomes slippery. Once pollinated, the flowers will turn into fruit. Seeds were collected and planted in fruit. Now, a total of 90 plants corpse flower artificial pollination has produced. Age of plants on display today 8 months. Plant height about 50 cm, tuber still weighs 15-60 grams.
According to Dian stating that with the limited tools they can retain pollen in the storage process.
After successfully perform artificial pollination, the researchers now got a new challenge because naturally it took 10 years for a new crop is planted with flowering bulbs of 20-25 kg. They were challenged to try to speed up the flowering process. Another challenge is the maintenance of a young corpse flower plants that are vulnerable to pest nematodes (segmented worms).
Artificial pollination and research on important corpse flower cultivation techniques in order utilization. Corpse flower can be used either as a plant that exhibits a conservation icon of Indonesia and as a medicinal plant. Which can lower blood sugar levels because the corpse flower has glucomannan.
As a conservation icon, corpse flower charm has been proved. Some time ago, preserved corpse flower amaze the public in an exhibition in Korea. Looking ahead, it is quite possible that the corpse flower still life on display.
Source
http://sains.kompas.com/read/2013/05/21/16340486/Bunga.Bangkai.Pertama.Hasil.Penyerbukan.Buatan
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