• Korean Journal of Plant Tissue Culture
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.167-171
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• 1994

This study was carried out to investigate the possibility of plant regeneration through somatic embryogenesis in suspension culture of Aralia elata S. Callus was induced from the explants of leaf and petiole cultured in the MS media containing 2,4-D and TDZ. More embryogenic calli were formed from petiole and with combination treatment of 24-D and TDZ. The quarter strength MS medium was effective for increasing number of somatic embryos. Mannitol supplemented to the quarter strength MS medium, reduced somatic embryo formation but inositol increased. Normal plantlets(86%) were regenerated from mature somatic embryos in MS basal medium and 50% of those survied when transplanted to the vermiculite in greenhouse.

• Korean Journal of Plant Tissue Culture
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.277-281
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• 2001

Embryogenic callus induction and plant regeneration methods were developed for native Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratenes L.) ecotypes. Mature caryopses and immature inflorescences (20 mm in length) of 4 native ecotypes and 5 foreign cultivars were plated on MS medium (30 g/L sucrose, 3 g/L Phytagel) supplemented with 1 mg/L 2,4-D, and cultured in the dark at 24$^{\circ}C$. Most explants formed calli, but more embryogenic calli were induced from the explants of immature inflorescences than caryopses which produced mostly non-embryogenic rooty calli. In P77 ecotypes, immature inflorescence explants formed embryogenic calli with the rate of 62~95%, and those of field-grown plants were more efficient than greenhouse-grown ones in embryogenic callus induction. Plantlets were regenerated from the embryogenic calli when they were transferred to hormone-free MS medium, and grew to maturity without morphological variations in greenhouse.

• Korean Journal of Plant Tissue Culture
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.345-349
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• 1997

Somatic embryos were induced through embryogenic callus derived from immature zygotic embryo culture of native Prunus yedoensis in Mt. Halla and regenerated into plantlets successfully. Embryogenic callus was induced most effectively on MS medium with 1.0 mg/L 2, 4-D and 0.1 mg/L BAP at an efficiency of approximately 60% using 45 day-old zygotic embryos after full blooming. Globular somatic embryos were induced from embryogenic callus on MS medium with 1.0 mg/L 2, 4-D and 0.1 mg/L BAP and these globular embryos developed to heart-shaped and cotyledonary embryos on hormone-free MS medium. Normal somatic embryos germinated 49% on 1/2 MS medium and the plants regenerated from the somatic embryos were morphologically normal.

• Korean Journal of Plant Tissue Culture
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.291-294
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• 1997

The experiments were carried out to determine the optimum conditions for the direct embrogenesis from the cotyledon derived zygotic embryo culture of Paeonia lactiflora Pall. Different peony tissues derived from zygotic embryos were cultured on MS medium with and without 2,4-D. Somatic embryos were formed from the cotyledons cultured on the medium without 2,4-D. The somatic embryogenesis from cotyledons was promoted in the growth regulator-free MS medium containing 1.65~3.3 g/L $NH_4NO_3$ and 30~40 g/L sucrose. The maximum frequency (80.0%) of somatic embryo formation was obtained from the cotyledons excised from zygotic embryos that cultured on MS medium containing 3.3 g/L $NH_4NO_3$. Epicotyl and roots were elongated from a somatic embryo by adding 0.3 mg/L GA$_3$ in the medium or the cold treatment at 4$^{\circ}C$ more than three weeks at 4$^{\circ}C$.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.185-188
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• 2002

Off-white, friable embryogenic calluses were formed on the internal integument of mature seeds of yuzu (Citrus junos) cultured on Murashige and Skoog's basal medium at a frequency of 1.2%. Embryogenic calluses were proliferated when cultured on medium with 1 mg/L 2,4-D. Upon transfer to medium with 0.1 mg/L kinetin, embryogenic calluses produced numerous somatic embryos. Embryogenic suspension cultures were established by placing embryogenic calluses into liquid medium with 1 mg/L 2,4-D. When plated onto medium with 0.5 mg/L ABA, embryogenic cells developed into somatic embryos at a high frequency, and then regenerated into plantlets. Plantlets were successfully transplanted to potting soil and grown in a greenhouse.

• Korean Journal of Plant Tissue Culture
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.13-17
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• 1995

In order to induce haploid plant through pollen culture, pollens of Paeonia albiflora were cultured on MS liquid medium The development of micospore through pollen culture was examined The effect of low temperature (5$^{\circ}C$, 10 days) pretreatment on callus induction and embryogenesis in pollen culture was not evident Calli derived from pollen gave rise to globular embryos when transferred onto solid medium containing 0.5 mg/, 2,4-L. The effect of low temperature pretreatment and medium. combination to pollen viability was unrecognized. Pollen viability was reduced as the culture proceeded.

• Journal of Plant Biology
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.211-215
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• 1995

병풀(Centella asiatica)의 엽병 조직절편에서 유도된 배발생 캘러스로부터 체세포배 발생에 의하여 소식물체의 재분화를 이루었다. 엽병 조직절편을 1mg/L 2,4-D와 1mg/L kinetin이 조합 처리된 MS 기본배지에 치상하여 85%의 효율로 배발생 캘러스를 유도할 수 있었으며 이와 같은 배발생 캘러스를 5mg/L NAA와 1mg/L kinetin이 첨가된 배지로 옮겼을 때 체세포배의 형성은 87%까지 이루어졌다. 체세포배는 기본배지의 농도를 절반으로 줄이고 0.2 mg/L NAA와 0.2 mg/L kinetin이 첨가된 배지조건에서 기관분화를 거쳐 소식물체로 재분화되었다.

• Korean Journal of Plant Tissue Culture
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.13-19
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• 1998

We have reported previously that intact embryogenic cells can be used instead of protoplasts for electroporation-mediated transformation of zoysiagrass and rice. In this study, conditions of the tissue electroporation were examined to optimize the procedures. Embryogenic cell suspensions were established in liquid MS medium containing 2 mg/L of 2,4-D with embryogenic calluses induced from mature embryos of Z. japonica. The suspension-cultured cell clumps were electroporated with 35S-gusA expression vector DNA, and degrees of DNA introduction into the cells were determined by histological expression rates of the gusA marker gene. DNA transfer into the cell clumps occurred in wide range of voltage (100-400 V) and capacitance (10-1980 $\mu\textrm{F}$), but more in the ranges of 200-300 V and 330-800 $\mu\textrm{F}$ DNA concentrations higher than 6 $\mu\textrm{g}$/mL were adequate for GUS expression of the electroporated cells. DNA transfers were confirmed in all three embryogenic cell lines but only in one out of eleven non-embryogenic lines. Positive GUS expressions occurred with DNAs added even 20-40 h after pulse treatments. As a promoter of gusA, Act1 and Ubi1 were effective 7 and 5 times than 35S respectively in number of GUS expression units on electroporated cell clumps. Embryogenic cell clumps survived and regenerated into plantlets after pulse treatments of wide range of conditions.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• v.46 no.5
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• pp.879-886
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• 2004

Effects of culture mediwn supplements and osmotic stress treatment on embryogenic callus induction and somatic embryogenesis were investigated in order to optimize tissue culture conditions of alfalfa(Medicago sativa L.). SH mediwn containing 5mgIL 2,4-D and 0.2mgIL kinetin was optimal for embryogenic callus induction from cotyledon tissue of alfalfa. Somatic embryos were formed when the embryogenic callus was cultured on SH mediwn supplemented with ImgIL 2,4-D and 2mgIL BA. Supplementation of 5mM L-proline and IgIL casein hydrolysate into the regeneration mediwn further increased plant regeneration frequency. Osmotic stress treatment of callus appeared to improve the frequency of somatic embryo formation, but the frequency of somatic embryo formation differed by the osmotic stress treatment using different osmotic stressors. The highest plant regeneration frequency of 30.7% was observed when embryogenic callus was treated with 0.7M sucrose for 18h. Efficient regeneration system established in this study will be useful for molecular breeding of alfalfa through genetic transformation.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.189-192
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• 2002

An efficient plant regeneration system of major cultivars of sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.) in Korea via somatic embryogenesis was established. Embryogenic calli were formed from shoot apical meristems of sweetpotato cultivars when cultured on LS medium supplemented with 1 mg/L auxin (2,4-D, picloram, dicamba). Among three kinds of auxin, 1 mg/L 2,4-D showed the highest embryogenic calli induction rate. After 4 weeks of cultures on LS medium supplemented with 1 mg/L 2,4-D, embryogenic calli induction rates of Sinhwangmi, Zami, Yulmi, and White Star were 86%, 78%, 76%, and 80%, respectively. Upon transfer onto LS basal medium, most of somatic embryos developed into plantlets. Regenerated plantlets were transplanted to potting soil and grown to mature plants in a greenhouse.