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Early Events in Somatic and Zygotic Embryogenesis in Rice

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Part of the book series: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry ((AGRICULTURE,volume 14))

Abstract

With the first reports of embryogenesis from cultured somatic tissues (Reinert 1958; Steward et al. 1958), a new possibility arose for the study of plant embryo development. In carrot tissue culture systems, for instance, somatic embryogenesis is controlled by the presence or absence of auxin in the culture medium and it is possible to produce over one million embryos per liter of cultured cells (Sung et al. 1984). This allows for an analysis of plant embryo development at a biochemical and molecular level unattainable by studying zygotic embryogeny. In addition to their obvious potential for studies of plant developmental biology, somatic embryos are the preferred method of regeneration of plants from tissue culture. Somatic embryos develop as bipolar structures, eliminating the need for separate root- and shoot-forming media during regeneration. Also, by virtue of a presumptive single cell origin, the possibility of chimeric regenerants is reduced and the potential for obtaining identical, genetically engineered plants from manipulated cells or protoplasts can be realized.

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Jones, T.J., Rost, T.L. (1991). Early Events in Somatic and Zygotic Embryogenesis in Rice. In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) Rice. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 14. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83986-3_5

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