In vitro propagation method for production of morphologically and genetically stable plants of different strawberry cultivars.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As strawberries are susceptible to somaclonal variation when propagated by tissue culture techniques, it is challenging to obtain the true-to-type plants necessary for continuous production of fruits of stable quality. Therefore, we aimed to develop an in vitro propagation method for the production of true-to-type plants of five different strawberry cultivars from meristems cultured in media containing different concentrations of kinetin (Kn).

Results

For all the cultivars, shoot induction was successful only in the meristems cultured in the medium without Kn and the medium containing 0.5 mg L^-1 Kn. The shoots obtained from explants cultured in media supplemented with 0.5 mg L^-1 Kn exhibited better plant growth parameters than those cultured

SUBMITTER: Naing AH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6461810 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature