摘要：Although the conventional methods of improvement have changed significantly throughout the last fifty years, additional tools and novel approaches are needed in order to fasten the process of creation new and highly valuable tulip varieties. The g enetic base of tulip production can be preserved and widen by an integration of biotechnology tools in conventional breeding. Micropropagation in vitro may produce very fast large numbers of vigorous plants with high quality and free of endogenous pathogen s. The in vitro rescue of embryos resulted from interspecific crosses between more or less distant species, chromosome doubling, s omaclonal variation, transformation, and marker - aided selection and breeding are just a few of the examples of the app lications of biotechnology in tulip improvement. This review provides an overview of the opportunities presented by the integration of plant biotechnology into the tulip improvement efforts
