Plant regeneration from root segments of Anthurium andraeanum and assessment of genetic fidelity of in vitro regenerates

In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Plant - A highly efficient regeneration system of Anthurium andraeanum Linden was established using root segments as explants of four genotypes,...     

Maturation and germination of walnut somatic embryos

Walnut somatic embryos were multiplied by repetitive embryogenesis on a solid basal DKW medium at 25°C in the dark. When the embryos were isolated at early cotyledonary stage (1–2 mm long) from the primary embryos and cultured on the medium for 3 weeks, they developed into mature embryos showing white, enlarged cotyledons and shoot and root apex. After transfer to light on solid germination medium, however, few mature embryos (0–5%) germinated. Germination percentage increased to about 10% when the mature embryos were pretreated by a storage at 4°C in the dark for 2 months, or by desiccation at 25°C in the dark for 3 or 5 days under an air-humidity conditioned by saturated salt solutions (Mg(NO₃)₂.6H₂O, or ZnSO₄.7H₂O). Similar results were obtained by the addition of gibberellic acid (GA₃) to the germination medium. When mature embryos were desiccated and then placed on medical cotton compresses in liquid germination medium, 45% of the embryos germinated into complete plantlets. These plantlets continued their growth after transplanting to a mixture of peat and vermiculite in pots.Abbreviations GA₃ gibberellic acid - DKW medium Driver & Kuniyuki Walnut medium     

Maturation and conversion ofLiriodendron tulipifera somatic embryos

Summary Embryogenic suspension cultures of the hardwood forest tree yellow-poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) have the potential to produce millions of plantlets. However, low conversion frequencies limit the realization of this potential. Using 4 embryogenic yellow-poplar lines, we first tested the ability of somatic embryos, selected for their similarity to mature zygotic embryos, to convert to plantlets, then tested physical and chemical treatments for their effects on promoting maturation of somatic embryos and subsequent plantlet production. Embryos selected based on resemblance to mature zygotic embryos and transferred to a hormone-free basal medium without casein hydrolysate (CH) produced plantlets at a frequency of 63%. Populations of synchronized somatic embryos were obtained by repeated fractionation of liquid medium-cultured proembryogenic masses (PEMs) on stainless steel sieves. These fractionated embryos failed to mature properly when cultured in liquid basal medium, however. Development of embryos cultured in basal medium supplemented with 5×10⁻⁷ M abscisic acid (ABA) was slowed and embryos appeared to mature properly, with separated cotyledons and little precocious germination. However, ABA-treated embryos only rarely converted to plantlets, possibly due to residual effects of the ABA. PEMs fractionated on sieves, transferred to filter paper and placed on solidified basal medium gave a 60–70% synchronous population of mature embryos 10–12 days following plating. Mature embryos transferred to basal medium without CH converted at a frequency of 72%. The percentage of all embryos differentiating from PEMs on filter paper that formed plantlets was 32%. This material is based upon work supported by the U. S. Department of Agriculture Cooperative State Research Service under Agreement No. 85-FSTY-9-0117.     

Maturation of avocado somatic embryos and plant recovery

Avocado proembryonic masses from suspension cultures were used to develop a protocol for somatic embryo development and maturation. Avocado somatic embryos could develop from proembryonic masses both in liquid and on semisolid medium but only the latter could develop to maturity. Size and number of opaque somatic embryos were affected by gellan gum concentration, with the optimum response obtained on medium supplemented with 6–7 g l⁻¹ gellan gum. The optimum sucrose concentration for recovery of opaque somatic embryos was 90 g l⁻¹; however, the development of embryos was suppressed at this concentration. Consequently, recovery of cotyledonary, opaque somatic embryos was achieved on medium with 30 g l⁻¹ sucrose. Somatic embryo development from dedifferentiating proembryonic masses required media with a high ratio of NO ₃ ⁻ :NH ₄ ⁺ (1:0 and 3:1) as opposed to the standard ratio (2:1) of MS medium. Germination of somatic embryos was sporadic. In order to increase the frequency of plant recovery, shoots that developed from somatic embryos were micropropagated using standard protocols. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

红掌花药培养

研究了发育时期、基因型、培养基、低温预处理等因素对红掌花药愈伤组织诱导的影响.结果表明,小孢子中晚期是红掌花药培养的适宜时期;基因型对花药膨大率有显著的影响;不同培养基上的Sweet Dream和Jungle Bush的花药膨大率差异显著;低温预处理明显提高Sweet Dream的花药膨大率.从Sweet Dream花药诱导出致密和疏松两种愈伤组织,两种愈伤组织芽分化率和生根率存在明显差异,致密愈伤组织的小苗生根率为95.00%,而疏松愈伤组织的小苗生根率为30.00%.Sweet Dream的花药再生植株与叶片再生植株在形态特征上有差异,染色体鉴定结果表明,花药再生植株均是二倍体.     

花烛离体培养叶色变异株系的相关性状

以花烛(Anthurium andraeanum)间接器官发生途径中再生出的一株花叶变异植株为原始材料, 进行增殖并对得到的3个叶色变异株系的叶色相关性状进行了初步研究。结果表明: 通过愈伤组织器官发生途径和腋芽增殖途径对这一花叶苗进行增殖, 均分离到3种变异株系, 即花叶苗、黄化苗和天鹅绒绿色叶片苗; 天鹅绒绿色苗叶片中的叶绿素含量比正常离体苗的含量低; 叶片解剖结构表明, 叶绿体在叶肉细胞中的分布与其叶片表现型相同, 天鹅绒绿色叶片与正常叶片在解剖结构上无明显差异。花烛原套只具有1层细胞, 无明显的L2层分生结构, 因此叶肉的薄壁细胞完全由向各个方向分裂的原体细胞发育而来, 这种组织结构导致花叶叶片中含有叶绿体的细胞和不含有叶绿体的薄壁细胞呈不规则分布。这种花叶株系可以作为育种材料或直接作为盆栽花烛进行推广。     

Maturation of black spruce somatic embryos. Part I. Effect of l-glutamine on the number and germinability of somatic embryos

Different concentrations of l-glutamine and different nitrogen sources in the medium were compared during maturation of black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.) somatic embryos. l-glutamine can be used as the sole nitrogen source for the maturation of Picea mariana somatic embryos at 2 to 3 gl^-1. A significantly lower number of somatic embryos was obtained on a medium prepared with only inorganic nitrogen. Compared with a medium supplement to inorganic nitrogen resulted in a twofold increase in the number of embryos for six genotypes. The nitrogen source and concentration in the maturation medium significantly affected the germination sensus stricto of somatic embryos (radicle appearance), but not their development into plantlets; at the time of epicotyl appearance, an effect of the nitrogen source was no longer found. A comparison of the development of somatic embryos into plantlets from seven genotypes showed that the genotype had more effect in terms of epicotyl appearance and in conversion rate than the nitrogen source present in the maturation medium.Abbreviations HLM-1 half-Litvays's medium with 10 M 2,4-D and 5 M BA - i only inorganic nitrogen in the medium - i+1 gG inorganic nitrogen plus 1 g l^-1 glutamine in the medium - SMM standard maturation medium - 2.5gG only 2.5 g l^-1 glutamine in the medium     

花烛离体培养叶色变异株系的相关性状

以花烛（Anthurium andraeanum）间接器官发生途径中再生出的一株花叶变异植株为原始材料,进行增殖并对得到的3个叶色变异株系的叶色相关性状进行了初步研究。结果表明：通过愈伤组织器官发生途径和腋芽增殖途径对这一花叶苗进行增殖,均分离到3种变异株系,即花叶苗、黄化苗和天鹅绒绿色叶片苗;天鹅绒绿色苗叶片中的叶绿素含量比正常离体苗的含量低;叶片解剖结构表明,叶绿体在叶肉细胞中的分布与其叶片表现型相同,天鹅绒绿色叶片与正常叶片在解剖结构上无明显差异。花烛原套只具有1层细胞,无明显的L2层分生结构,因此叶肉的薄壁细胞完全由向各个方向分裂的原体细胞发育而来,这种组织结构导致花叶叶片中含有叶绿体的细胞和不含有叶绿体的薄壁细胞呈不规则分布。这种花叶株系可以作为育种材料或直接作为盆栽花烛进行推广。     

Anthurium andraeanum Plantlets Produced from Callus Tissues Cultivated in vitro

During the last 3 years a method has been developed to reproduce Anthurium andraeanum Lind. through callus cultures. The procedural sequence is as follows: callus induction on excised leaf fragments, callus subculture on solid and in liquid media, adventitious sprout formation in callus on solid media, and rooting of excised sprouts. Recently 20 adult genotypes were propagated by this method.     

花烛无菌苗液体增殖培养的影响因子

以花烛(Anthurium andraeanum Lind.)品种Sonate无菌苗为材料,研究了液体培养条件下不同植物生长调节剂、蔗糖浓度、培养方式等因子对腋芽增殖的影响,并比较了Sonate、Valentino和Julanba 3个品种间腋芽增殖的差异。结果表明:在液体振荡培养条件下,以Nitsch BA0.5mgL-1 KT1.0mgL-1 蔗糖30gL-1为Sonate品种适宜的增殖培养基;在20μmolm-2s-1弱光下培养25d后转至40μmolm-2s-1正常光照下培养,对Sonate品种的增殖效果较好,腋芽诱导数平均可达11.1个,腋芽平均长度为1.4cm。花烛腋芽增殖能力在品种间存在差异,但3个品种均可在以上培养基和光照条件下快速增殖,其中以Sonate和Valentino品种的增殖较快。     

Maturation of soybean somatic embryos and the transition to plantlet growth

The maturation of soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.) somatic embryos was characterized. Maturation was assayed by evaluating the ability of somatic embryos to make the transition to a plantlet through a germination-like process. Somatic embryos were organized from cotyledons of immature soybean embryos. Maturation of somatic embryos occurred on a Murashige-Skoog basal medium supplemented with activated charcoal and 0.28 molar sucrose. After 8 weeks on this medium, somatic embryos exhibited vigorous, high frequency development to plantlets. The “germination” frequency (conversion) of somatic embryos, and plantlet recovery frequency varied concurrently with maturation period. Conversion and plant recovery required no exogenous growth regulators. Desiccation of immature somatic embryos under controlled humidity regimes resulted in increased frequency of conversion of immature somatic embryos. Morphological abnormalities appeared in the somatic embryos, but few were detrimental to conversion velocity. There was little effect of genotype on conversion velocity or frequency.     

Induction and development of somatic embryos from spinach (Spinacia oleracea) leaf segments

Somatic embryogenesis was induced in embryogenic calli of Spinacia oleracea L., on a Murashige and Skoog (1962) medium, containing 4.6 μM kinetin as the sole growth regulator. Abscisic acid, gibberellic acid, and indole-3-acetic acid were supplemented to kinetin-containing medium and their effects on the initiation of somatic embryos was studied. Abscisic acid at a particular concentration (4 μM) dramatically increased the number of embryos per g fresh weight of callus, while both gibberellic acid and indole-3-acetic acid suppressed the embryo initiation. It is suggested that the promoting effect of abscisic acid on the embryo initiation may be explained as a stress response of the tissue. The relative number of globular embryos vs. the embryos in heart/torpedo and cotyledonary stages was increased at 4 μM abscisic acid and at all gibberellic acid concentrations (0.3–10 μM). In contrast, the ratio of globular to polar embryos was lower than in controls at 1 μM abscisic acid and indole-3-acetic acid (1 and 10 μM). The effects of growth regulators on the ratio of globular to polar embryos indicate that they interfere with the normal distribution of cell division and cell expansion during early embryogenesis. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Regeneration of plants from alginate-encapsulated somatic embryos of banana cv. Rasthali (Musa SPP. AAB Group)

Summary Somatic embryos of banana cv. Rasthali (AAB genomic group) were encapsulated in 5% sodium alginate to produce synthetic seeds. The frequency of germination of ecapsulated embryos varied considerably on different gel matrices and substrates used for plant development. Maximum conversion frequency of 66% was noted from encapsulated embryos cultured on MS medium. Plantlets developed from synthetic seeds were successfully trnasferred to soil.     

花烛离体培养中的壮苗

针对花烛离体培养中普遍存在的长期培养导致再生苗生长势退化的现象,研究了如何恢复再生苗生长势,获得健壮的无菌苗.结果表明,花烛离体培养中,随着继代次数的增加,外源生长调节剂浓度应逐步降低直至0;活性炭对无菌苗生长势的恢复有较显著效果.无菌苗茎尖是离体培养体系重建中诱导愈伤组织最适宜的外植体;诱导愈伤组织的适宜培养基为改良的MS 1.0 mg·L-16-BA 0.1 mg·L-1 2,4-D;TDZ诱导芽的效果明显优于6-BA,MS 0.01 mg·L-1 TDZ较适合于芽诱导.     

红掌组培苗继代过程中细菌污染的防治试验

针对红掌组织培养过程中易出现细菌污染的问题,进行多种抗菌素处理及二次升汞灭菌处理对细菌污染的防治比较试验。结果表明,用300mg/L青霉素+180mg/L链霉素溶液注射到培养基表面,能有效控制细菌污染,且对组培苗生长影响最小。     

温度对火鹤花生长发育的影响

本文就温度对火鹤花生长发育的影响进行研究,结果表明,全年中日均温15℃的时段,火鹤花产量和品质最差,并造成寒害;日均温29.5℃的时段,有轻微高温伤害;日均温26℃时段最适于火鹤花生长,此时切花品质最好.     

Direct shoot regeneration from lamina explants of two commercial cut flower cultivars of Anthurium andraeanum Hort.

Summary Direct plant regeneration from flowering plant-derived lamina explants of Anthurium andraeanum Hort. cultivars Tinora Red and Senator was established on modified Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium. Cultivar difference, stage of source lamina and the position of explant in lamina, medium pH, and type of growth regulators significantly influenced direct plant regeneration. Explants from young brown lamina were superior to young green lamina. The half-strength MS medium containing 1.11 μM N⁶-benzyladenine (BA), 1.14 μM indole-3-acetic acid, and 0.46 μM kinetin at pH 5.5 was most effective for induction of shoot formation. Explants from the proximal end of the source lamina gave rise to a higher number of shoots compared to the mid and distal regions. Cultivar Tinora Red was more regenerative than Senator in terms of number of shoots per explant. The use of a lower BA concentration (0.44 μM) was essential for callus-free shoot multiplication during subculture. Regenerated shoots could be induced to form roots on half-strength MS medium supplemented with 0.54 μM α-naphthaleneacetic acid and 0.93 μM kinetin. More than 300 plantlets of each eultivar were harvested from a single source lamina within 200 d of culture. Most plantlets (95%) survived after acclimation in soil.     

TDZ和CPPU对红掌快速繁殖的影响

以红掌带主脉叶切片、叶柄切段为外植体,研究TDZ和CPPU对其快速繁殖的影响。结果表明,在愈伤组织诱导上,与6-BA相比,TDZ和CPPU具有更强的诱导外植体脱分化活性;TDZ 1.0mg/L和6-BA0.5mg/L配比是诱导红掌外植体脱分化的最佳配方,与其它培养基比较,愈伤组织诱导率提高50.0%~166.0%。在附加TDZ 0.3mg/L+NAA 0.1~0.4mg/L或CPPU 0.3mg/L+NAA 0.1~0.4mg/L的MS培养基上,愈伤组织均能很好分化,并能长成完整植株。