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Some factors affecting somatic embryogenesis efficiency in soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.)

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Biologia Plantarum

Abstract

Selected factors affecting somatic embryogenesis efficiency have been studied, namely genotype, explant type and its orientation in the medium, different basal media, different auxins for somatic embryo induction, and two ways of donor plant cultivation. The key role is played by genotype and auxin used, the minimum effect was observed due to basal media. In the series of subsequent experiments we have found the best combination of individual factors as follows: cv. Altona, 10 uM 2,4-D, L2 basal medium, central part of immature cotyledon as initial expiant oriented by adaxial side down on the agar medium, and field grown donor plants. This combination exhibited 100 % embryogenic explants with 5.43 ± 0.65 somatic embryos per expiant,i.e. somatic embryogenesis efficiency 5.43.

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Abbreviations

picloram:

4-amino-3,5,6-trichloropicolinic acid-2,4-D-2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid

NAA:

α-naphthaleneacetic acid

dicamba:

3,6-dichloro-o-anisic acid

L2-medium:

medium after Phillips and Collins 1979

MSB-medium:

medium with mineral salts after Murashige and Skoog 1962, vitamins after Gamborget al. 1968,

SE:

somatic embryogenesis

SEE:

somatic embryogenesis efficiency

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Griga, M. Some factors affecting somatic embryogenesis efficiency in soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.). Biol Plant 35, 179–189 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02925936

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