Pretreatment Stress Enhances Embryogenic Callus Production in Anther Culture of Sturt’s Desert Pea (Swainsona formosa)

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Title Pretreatment Stress Enhances Embryogenic Callus Production in Anther Culture of Sturt’s Desert Pea (Swainsona formosa)
 
Creator Zulkarnaen Zulkarnaen
 
Subject anther culture, embryogenic callus, stress pretreatment, Swainsona formosa
 
Description The aims of the experiment were to investigate the effect of pretreatment stress on the proliferation of anther-derivedembryogenic callus, and its subsequent embryo regeneration in Swainsona formosa. Anthers were pretreated in starvationmedium at cold (4 oC) temperature and cultured. Cultures were initially placed in darkness for four weeks, followedby 16-h photoperiod at 25 + 1 oC. The stress pretreatment was found to enhance embryogenic callus formation on culturedanthers. Further, somatic embryos were successfully regenerated from embryogenic callus upon transferred onto regenerationmedium supplemented with 1% sucrose and 4.63 μM kinetin, and later plantlets were obtained. Meanwhile,nonembryogenic callus continued to grow resulting in more callus mass without showing any embryoid initiation.
 
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Date 2008-01-25
 
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Identifier http://www.ijonline.net/index.php/HAYATI/article/view/142
 
Source HAYATI, Journal of Biosciences; Vol 14, No 1 (2007)
 
Language en