| Abstract: | Summary Improved in vitro tissue culture systems are needed to facilitate the application of transgene technology to the improvement of sugar beet
germplasms. Several commercially important sugar beet breeding lines (SDM, 3, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, HB 526, and CMS 22003) and
commercial varieties (Roberta and Gala) were tested for their regeneration capacity through adventitious shoot organogenesis
from cotyledons, hypocotyls, root/hypocotyl/shoot transition zone tissues, and leaf lamina and petiole via an intervening
callus phase. Callus induction and adventitious shoot regeneration was dependent on genotype and combinations of plant growth
regulators. With cotyledon or hypocotyl explants, SDM 3 and 10 showed a better response on adventitious shoot regeneration
in medium containing benzyladenine (BA) and 2,3,5-triiodobenzoic acid or 1-naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA) than SDM 11, 5, and
9. Shoot regeneration was obtained from hypocytyl-root or hypocotyl-shoot transition zone tissue in SDM 9, 10, and HB 526
grown on PGo medium supplemented with BA to induce callus, and the regeneration frequency was 25%. Adventitious shoots were
also regenerated from leaf explants of SDM 3 and 9 cultured on medium containing NAA for callus induction and BA and NAA to
induce shoot regeneration, and in SDM 10 and CSM 22003 cultured on medium containing BA for callus induction and to induce
shoot regeneration. |
