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In vitro serial subculture to improve rooting of Eucalyptus urophylla

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The aim of this study was to improve the rooting efficiency of Eucalyptus urophylla clones by in vitro reinvigoration/rejuvenation in two clones (02 and 04) from the breeding program of the V&M Florestal company. An in vitro culture began with 200 meristems of each clone, which were excised, disinfected, and inoculated in culture medium. When shoots from these first meristems inoculated reached a height of 3 cm, 100 new meristematic regions of 0.5 cm were isolated and inoculated in culture medium. The other shoots from were inoculated in a rooting medium, where they remained for 30 days. After this period, the plants were acclimatized and used as stock plants for shoot production in a commercial nursery. This process was repeated until the shoots attained an ex vitro rooting rate of more than 80%. After reinvigoration/rejuvenation of clones 02 and 04, the relationship between rooting and the presence of starch and phenolic compounds at the base of the minicuttings was histochemically analyzed. For clone 02, three in vitro subcultures were needed to increase the rooting rate, and for clone 04, only one in vitro subculture was required. In vitro reinvigoration/rejuvenation is a determining factor for greater rooting efficiency of minicuttings of 02 and 04 clones. Production of sclerenchyma fibers around the root vascular cylinder and starch and phenolic compound production are directly related to rooting efficiency.

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Acknowledgements

Our thanks to the V&M Florestal company for donating the eucalypt plants used in this study and to the National Research Council (CNPq), Coordination for the Improvement of Personnel in Higher Education (Capes), and the Research Support Foundation of the State of Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG) for financial support.

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  1. Departamento de Ciências Florestais, Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei, Campus Sete Lagoas, Sete Lagoas, Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Evânia Galvão Mendonça & Patrícia Aparecida de Souza

  2. Instituto de Pesquisas e Estudos Florestais, Piracicaba, Brazil

    Tânia Regina Batista

  3. Laboratório de Farmacobotânica, Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei, Campus Centro-Oeste Dona Lindu, Divinópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Vanessa Cristina Stein

  4. Centro de Tecnologia Canavieira, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil

    Flávia Pereira Balieiro

  5. Denpasa- Dendê do Brasil, Santa Bárbara do Pará, Pará, Brazil

    José Renato de Abreu

  6. Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Marinês Ferreira Pires & Luciano Vilela Paiva

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Fig. 1

Rejuvenation of clone 02 from natural Eucalyptus urophylla, 21 days after pruning. Nursery plants (1), G1 (2), G2 (3), G3 (4), and G4 (5). (a) Tubette plants. (b) Plants without tubette. Scale bar – 2 cm. (JPEG 111 kb)

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Rejuvenation of clone 04 from natural Eucalyptus urophylla, 21 days after pruning. Nursery plants (1), G1 (2), G2 (3), and G3 (4). (a) Tubette plants. (b) Plants without tubette. Scale bar – 2 cm. (JPEG 107 kb)

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Cross sections of the base of Eucalyptus urophylla stem minicuttings from clone 02. (a) Nursery plants. (b) First subculture generation. (c) Second subculture generation. (d) Third subculture generation stained with safrablau solution. ep – epidermis. cx - cortex. sc - sclerenchyma. ph - phloema. xl - xylem. ss - secretory structure. mp - medullary parenchyma. (JPEG 372 kb)

Fig. 4

Cross sections of the base of Eucalyptus urophylla stem minicuttings from clone 04. (a) Nursery plants. (b) First subculture generation. (c) Second subculture generation. (d) Third subculture generation. ep – epidermis. cx - cortex. sc - sclerenchyma. ph - phloema. xl - xylem. mp - medullary parenchyma. (JPEG 372 kb)

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Mendonça, E.G., Batista, T.R., Stein, V.C. et al. In vitro serial subculture to improve rooting of Eucalyptus urophylla. New Forests 51, 801–816 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11056-019-09761-6

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