witloof

TDZ-induced high frequency plant regeneration through multiple shoot formation in witloof chicory (Cichorium intybus L.).

My favorite, though, are the tiny canoes you can make from the little pointed heads of Belgian endive--also known as witloof chicory--rendered white, tender and crisp by blanching.

They are being cultivated using a traditional forcing method more common on the Continent, where the veg is known as Witloof (White Leaf).

Chicory heads are forced, either underground or in a cool, dark place, which keeps them white - hence their Belgian name Witloof, meaning white leaf.

Other delightful food poems in this collection include "Truffles," a poem in five sestets that focus on the links between the truffle and human sexuality; "Endive," a poem celebrating a vegetable with various forms as chicory, escarole, and witloof, inviting the poet to word play; "Composition with Broccoli, #2," which finds a "tableau" of crudites inviting her guests to "compose a world," as the poet does; and "Watermelon," another humorous piece in which the poet imagines swallowing a seed and having "melons" grow from her feet.

In vitro regeneration of witloof chicory (Cichorium intybus L.) from leaf explants and accumulation of esculin.

[15.] Hanotel L, Fleuriet A and P Boisseau Biochemical changes involved in browning of gamma-irradiated cut witloof chicory.