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A method has been developed to facilitate shoot formation from leaf explants of almond. Leaves were dissected from micropropagated shoot cultures of the commercial cultivars Nonpareil and Ne Plus Ultra, and sections incubated on Almehdi and Parfitt's (1986) basal medium (AP) with varied plant growth-regulator conditions. Three auxins, 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D), α-naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA), and indole-3-butyric acid (IBA), in combination with two cytokinins, benzylaminopurine (BA) and thidiazuron (TDZ), were tested at various concentrations along with casein hydrolysate (CH) to determine, the conditions most conducive to adventitious shoot regeneration. Response to the tested plant growth-regulator conditions varied with genotype. Of the three auxins tested, NAA and IBA induced adventitious shoots from Ne Plus Ultra explants, but only IBA was effective for Nonpareil. For the cytokinins, shoot development from Ne Plus Ultra occurred in the presence of either BA or TDZ, whereas for Nonpareil only TDZ was effective unless CH was incorporated in the basal medium. The inclusion of CH (0.1% w/v) improved callus morphology, and increased regeneration frequencies for both cultivars. Maximum regeneration frequencies for Ne Plus Ultra (44.4%) and Nonpareil (5.5%) were achieved on AP basal salts supplemented with CH, IBA (9.8 μM), and TDZ at 22.7 and 6.8 μM, respectively.
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Ainsley, P.J., Collins, G.G. & Sedgley, M. Adventitious shoot regeneration from leaf explants of almond (Prunus dulcis mill.). In Vitro Cell.Dev.Biol.-Plant 36, 470–474 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11627-000-0084-5
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