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HaploidCapsicum through experimental androgenesis
Haploid embryos and plantlets in yet another solanaceous member viz.,Capsicum annuum L. var.grossum Sendt, have been successfully rearedin vitro through culture of young immature anthers. Exogenous auxin (IAA) wa...
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Experimental induction of triploid plants ofPhysalis through anther culture
Anther culture ofPhysalis minima L. (2 n=48) was successful and embryos and plantlets could be obtained 5–6 weeks after culture. MS medium containing CM was essential for pollen division. 16.7% of the cultured an...
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Anther Culture
More than two decades ago, C.D. LaRue (1954) of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, conceived the idea of culturing pollen (gametophytes) of higher plants in order to explore their growth potential und...
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Isolation of sodium chloride tolerant cell lines and plants in finger millet
Sodium chloride tolerant cell lines of finger millet were isolated from embryogenic cultures growing on MS medium supplemented with picloram (2 mg I-1), kinetin (0.1 mg l-1) and sodium chloride (1 %) at the end o...
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Plant regeneration through somatic embryogenesis in peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.)
Somatic embryos were induced from immature cotyledons and immature embryonal axis ofArachis hypogaea L. on L-6 basal medium supplemented with NAA, picloram or 2,4-D at 5–50 mg 1-1. Immature embryonal axis produce...
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Somatic embryogenesis inCicer arietinum L: Influence of genotype and auxins
Plant regeneration through somatic embryogenesis was obtained in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) using immature cotyledons and immature embryonal axes as explants. 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D), 4-amino-3....