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Somatic embryos were induced on roots excised from in vitro plants of Prunus avium× pseudocerasus `Colt'. On medium containing 6-benzylamino purine (BAP, 1.5 μM) and 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D, 15 μM), a mean of 25 (s.e. ± 2.0) somatic embryos were produced on intact root systems and 15 (s.e. ± 1.7) on roots systems cut into 10 mm pieces. Most somatic embryos were formed directly on intact roots and indirectly (from callus) on sectioned roots. A mean of 2.5 (s.e. ± 0.25) secondary embryos per primary embryo were formed directly on primary embryos after they were transferred to medium containing BAP (1.5 μM), indole-3-butyric acid (10 μM) and 2,4-D (5 μM). After transfer to a medium containing BAP (2 μM) and gibberellic acid (GA3, 3 μM), shoots developed in 75% (s.e. ± 7.3) of the embryos. Somatic embryos were not induced on explants of in vitro roots or shoots of P. avium, and were induced infrequently on zygotic embryos, although a wide range of media were tested. Possible reasons for the contrasting embryogenic ability of `Colt' and P. avium are discussed.
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Mandegaran, Z., Roberts, A. & Hammatt, N. The ability of Prunus avium× P. pseudocerasus `Colt' to form somatic embryos in vitro contrasts with the recalcitrance of P. avium. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 59, 57–63 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006476627434
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