Abstract
Protoplasts derived from hypocotyls of seedlings grown on half-strength MS medium containing 1% sucrose were cultured at a density of 5×104 ml-1 in Kao's medium supplemented with 1.0 mgl-12,4-D, 0.1 mgl-1 NAA and 0.5 mgl-1 zeatin riboside. After three days of culture in darkness at 25±1°C, cultures were transferred to light (70 μEm-2s-1) in a 16/8 h ligø ht/dark cycle. Cultures were diluted on the 7th, 10th and 13th day with Kao's medium containing 3.4% sucrose, 0.1 mgl-1 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid and 1.0 mgl-1 benzyladenine. On the fifteenth day, microcalli were plated on K3 medium gelled with 0.5% agarose (Type 1, low EEO, Sigma). After a further period of two weeks, transfers were made to specific media to achieve either organogenesis or somatic embryogenesis. Time taken from plating protoplasts to obtaining plantlets is 8–10 weeks. Using this procedure, several hundred regenerated plants have been hardened in a growth chamber and transferred to soil.
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Kirti, P.B., Chopra, V.L. Rapid plant regeneration through organogenesis and somatic embryogenesis from cultured protoplasts of Brassica juncea . Plant Cell Tiss Organ Cult 20, 65–67 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00034759
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00034759