ISSN:
1573-5060
Keywords:
Sweet potato
;
Ipomoea batatas
;
plant regeneration
;
somatic embryogenesis
;
protoplasts
;
genetic variation
;
somaclonal variation
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
Notes:
Abstract The application of new techniques for improvement of sweet potato crops, particularly including the exploitation of somaclonal variation, gene transfer by genetic transformation and somatic hybridization, requires the control of plant regeneration from tissue cultures. Shoots can easily be regenerated from explants of stems, petioles, leaves and roots, while callus cultures do not produce any shoots. The potential of somatic embryogenesis and plant regeneration via embryogenesis was evaluated for 10 cultivars of sweet potato. Protocols for plant regeneration from cultured protoplasts have also been developed. Since mesophyll was resistant to enzyme digestion, fragments of stems and petioles, callus and cell suspensions were used as source of protoplasts of sweet potato. Series of transfers of protoplast-derived calluses, particularly those which had been obtained from in vitro plants, to media containing a high level of zeatin resulted in successful formation of shoots in only two sweet potato cultivars. In addition, the embryogenic potential was irreversibly lost through protoplast culture, since protoplasts isolated from embryogenic cell suspensions developed into non-embryogenic callus. Consequently, an alternative protocol is being successfully developed to improve plant regeneration from cultured protoplasts of sweet potato, involving first root formation from which shoots can then be regenerated. Preliminary evaluation in field conditions in Gabon revealed that plants regenerated from cultured protoplasts exhibited a great genetic variability in their growth and tuber formation in particular.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1002997319342
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