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Establishment of Callus Cultures and Regeneration of Maize Plants

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Maize

Part of the book series: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry ((AGRICULTURE,volume 25))

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In the last decade, cereals and, in particular, maize (Zea mays L.) have been the object of concentrated attention in the field of tissue culture and biotechnology. Since an approach has been found to realizing the potential totipotency of maize cells (Green and Phillips 1975), conditions are now being developed for the initiation of callus cultures and regeneration of plants in many genotypes of maize (Phillips et al. 1988); a procedure is proposed for preparing suspension cultures and protoplasts capable of plant regeneration (Prioli and Sondahl 1989). This enables cell technologies to be applied in addition to conventional methods for speeding up the selection process and making it more easy. Mutant plants resistant to pathotoxins, herbicides, amino acids, and their analogs have already been obtained with the use of tissue cultures (Gengenbach et al. 1977; Anderson and Georgeson 1986; Frisch and Gengenbach 1986). The advances made in genetic engineering are beginning to be put into practice: economically valuable genes are being transferred directly into the maize genome (Schwall and Feix 1988).

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  1. K.A. Timiriazev Institute of Plant Physiology of Academy of Science, 127276, Moscow, Russia

    Yu. I. Dolgykh

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    Y. P. S. Bajaj

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Dolgykh, Y.I. (1994). Establishment of Callus Cultures and Regeneration of Maize Plants. In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) Maize. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 25. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57968-4_2

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