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Plant regeneration via direct and indirect adventitious shoot formation and chromosome-doubled somaclonal variation in Titanotrichum oldhamii (Hemsl.) Solereder

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The gesneriaceous perennial plant Titanotrichum oldhamii has beautiful foliage and attractive bright yellow flowers. However, breeding of T. oldhamii by conventional sexual hybridization may be difficult because sexual reproduction of this species is very rare. In the present study, plant regeneration systems via both direct and indirect formation of adventitious shoots from leaf explants were established as the first step toward breeding T. oldhamii by using biotechnological techniques. Adventitious shoots were formed efficiently on medium containing 0.1 mg l−1 benzyladenine. Histological observation showed that shoot formation on this medium occurred directly from leaf epidermal cells without callus formation. On the other hand, leaf explants formed calluses on medium containing 0.1 mg l−1 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid. The calluses could be maintained by monthly subculturing to fresh medium of the same composition. When the calluses were transferred to plant growth regulator-free medium, they formed adventitious shoots. Directly and indirectly formed shoots rooted well on medium containing 0.1 mg l−1 indole-3-butyric acid. Plantlets thus obtained were successfully acclimatized and grew vigorously in the greenhouse. Flow cytometry analysis indicated that no variation in the ploidy level was observed in plants regenerated via direct shoot formation, whereas chromosome doubling occurred in several plants regenerated via indirect shoot formation. Regenerated plants with the same ploidy level as the mother plants showed almost the same phenotype as the mother plants, whereas chromosome-doubled plants showed apparent morphological alterations: they had small and crispate flowers, and round and deep green leaves.

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  1. Faculty of Agriculture, Niigata University, 2-8050 Ikarashi, Niigata, 950-2181, Japan

    Hiroki Takagi, Shintaro Sugawara, Tomoka Saito, Haruka Tasaki, Dong-Sheng Han & Masaru Nakano

  2. Kunming Botanical Garden, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 132# Lanhei Road, Heilongtan, Kunming, Yunnan, 650204, China

    Lu Yuanxue & Guan Kaiyun

  3. Botanic Gardens of Toyama, 42 Kamikutsuwada, Fuchu-Machi, Toyama, 939-2713, Japan

    Toshinari Godo

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Takagi, H., Sugawara, S., Saito, T. et al. Plant regeneration via direct and indirect adventitious shoot formation and chromosome-doubled somaclonal variation in Titanotrichum oldhamii (Hemsl.) Solereder. Plant Biotechnol Rep 5, 187–195 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11816-011-0172-5

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