Abstract
Plant regeneration via somatic embryogenesis was achieved in callus cultures derived from nodal explants of in vitro grown seedlings and excised mature zygotic embryos of three bamboo species on Murashige and Skoog's (MS) basal medium supplemented with 0.5 mg/l kinetin (Kn), 2.0 mg/l 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D), 10 mg/l adenine sulphate (Ads) and 3% (w/v) sucrose incubated in the light or in the dark. Somatic embryos germinated (95–98%) into normal plants and were transferred to soil with 95% success. In vitro flowering was induced on shoots developed from nodal explants taken from somatic embryo regenerated plants of Bambusa vulgaris, Dendrocalamus giganteus and Dendrocalamus strictus on half-strength MS basal medium supplemented with 0.25 mg/l indole-3-butyric acid (IBA), 0.5 mg/l Ads, 0.5 mg/l gibberellic acid (GA3) and 3% sucrose.
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Abbreviations
- BAP:
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6-benzylaminopurine
- Kn:
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kinetin
- Ads:
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adenine sulphate
- IBA:
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indole-3-butyric acid
- NAA:
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1-naphthaleneacetic acid
- 2,4-D:
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2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid
- MS:
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Murashige and Skoog (1962) basal medium
- GA3 :
-
gibberellic acid
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Rout, G.R., Das, P. Somatic embryogenesis and in vitro flowering of 3 species of bamboo. Plant Cell Reports 13, 683–686 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00231624
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