Curcuma is extensively cultivated as a medicinal and ornamental plant in tropical subtropical regions. Due to the bright bract color, distinctive inflorescence long blooming period, it has become new favorite terms of urban landscape, potted flowers cut flowers. However, little research on breeding cultivars using traditional methods available genus Curcuma. In present study, pollen viability s...

Interspecific hybridization is common in nature but can be increased in frequency or even originated by human actions, such as species introduction or habitat modification, which may threaten species persistence. When hybridization occurs between distantly related species, referred to as "distant hybridization," the resulting hybrids are generally infertile or fertile but do not undergo chromos...