Somatic embryos from cultured tissues of triploid plantains (Musa 'ABB')
1Department of Biochemistry, Division of Biological Sciences, State University of New York, 11794, Stony Brook, N.Y., USA.
Plant Cell Reports
|November 22, 2013
Abstract:
Somatic embryos of two triploid plantain clones ABB 'Saba' and 'Pelipita' were produced in liquid from cells derived from multiplying shoot cultures. The medium consisted of a modified Murashige and Skoog (1962) medium with the auxins 2,4-D (1 mg/l) and 2,4, 5-T (1 mg/l) and the cytokinin BAP (0.1, 1 mg/l). Whereas proembryonic masses formed in each instance, green somatic embryos formed only in those treatments containing 2,4,5-T.
