Abstract
Salt tolerant cultivars of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L.) can be obtained from induced mutation. The objective of the present study was to induce mutation for salt tolerance using ethylmethanesulphonate (EMS) in calli of sweet potato, followed by cell line selection and subsequent plant regeneration. Calli initiated from leaf explants were treated with 0.5% EMS for 0, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5 and 3 h, followed by rinsing with sterile distilled water for four times. Preliminary experiments showed that 200 mM NaCl could be used as selection pressure. Salt tolerant calli were sub-cultured on medium supplemented with 200 mM NaCl for selection of mutant cell lines and this process repeated 5 times (20 days each). The selected calli were transferred onto somatic embryo formation medium, which was Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with 4 mg l−1 abscisic acid (ABA), 10 mg l−1 gibberellic acid (GA). After 15 days, somatic embryos were transferred onto MS medium supplemented with 0.05 mg l−1 ABA, 0.2 mg l−1 zeatin (ZT) for regeneration. Plants designated as ML1, ML2 and ML3 were regenerated from the somatic embryos formed by calli treated with 0.5% EMS for 2 and 2.5 h. After propagation, salt tolerance of these mutants was investigated. Data suggested the mutants were more salt tolerant than control plants.
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Abbreviations
- EMS:
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Ethylmethanesulphonate
- MS:
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Murashige and Skoog
- ABA:
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Abscisic acid
- GA:
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Gibberellic acid
- ZT:
-
Zeatin
- 4FA:
-
4-fluorophenoxyacetic acid
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Luan, YS., Zhang, J., Gao, XR. et al. Mutation induced by ethylmethanesulphonate (EMS), in vitro screening for salt tolerance and plant regeneration of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L.). Plant Cell Tiss Organ Cult 88, 77–81 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11240-006-9183-2
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