Abstract
Plants were regenerated from mesophyll protoplasts of Ipomoea cairica L., a wild relative of sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.), and somatic hybrids between I. cairica L. and sweetpotato cv. Xushu 18 were obtained by PEG-mediated method. I. cairica L. protoplasts were isolated from the leaves of in vitro grown plants and cultured in a modified MS medium containing 0.05 mg l−1 2,4-D and 0.5 mg l−1 kinetin. Nine weeks after plating, the obtained small calluses up to about 2 mm in diameter were transferred to solid MS medium supplemented with 0.05 mg l−1 2,4-D and 0.5 mg l−1 kinetin for callus proliferation. Three weeks after transfer, the calluses were transferred to MS medium supplemented with 0–1.0 mg l−1 IAA and 1.0–3.0 mg l−1 BAP and further to hormone-free MS medium for plant regeneration. The frequencies of calluses forming plants ranged from 6.0% to 41.3% based on the different concentrations of IAA and BAP, and 2.0 mg l−1 BAP gave the highest regeneration frequency of protoplast-derived calluses in I. cairica L.. The regenerated plants, when transferred to soil, showed 100% survival. No morphological variations were observed. Mesophyll protoplasts of I. cairica L. were fused with protoplasts isolated from embryogenic suspension cultures of Xushu 18 by PEG-mediated method. The fused products were cultured with the best protoplast culture system of I. cairica L.. Finally, 114 plants were produced from 63 of the 182 calluses derived from the fused protoplasts, and 46 plants of them were confirmed to be somatic hybrids through peroxidase isozyme, RAPD, morphological and cytological analyses.
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Abbreviations
- BAP:
-
benzylaminopurine
- 2,4-D:
-
2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid
- IAA:
-
3-indoleacetic acid
- MES:
-
2-(N-morpholino)-ethanesulfonic acid
- MS:
-
Murashige and Skoog (1962)
- PAGE:
-
polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
- PEG:
-
polyethylene glycol
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This work was supported by Outstanding Younger Science Foundation of China (No.30225028).
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Guo, J.M., Liu, Q.C., Zhai, H. et al. Regeneration of plants from Ipomoea cairica L. protoplasts and production of somatic hybrids between I. cairica L. and sweetpotato, I. batatas (L.) Lam.. Plant Cell Tiss Organ Cult 87, 321–327 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11240-006-9135-x
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