In vitro Regeneration of Hyssopus officinalis L. and Plant Genetic Similarity

Biotechnological methods are an essential component of plant genetic resources investigation that allow both to preserve a rare natural plant and useful selection genotypes, especially essential oil bearing plants used in medicine, perfume, food, etc. In the clonal micropropagation in vitro, the key moment is to retain genetic stability of in vitro material. It is considered that plant regeneration in vitro from meristem or vegetative buds gives identical clones, but the effect of the medium growth regulators on the genetic stability of in vitro plant material is discussed. Therefore, the objective of our work was to evaluate the genetic similarity of ex situ and in vitro plants. Investigation was performed on Hyssopus officinalis L. cv. Nikitskiy Beliy (NBG selection). Regeneration from the shoot single-node segments on the modified Murashige and Skoog culture medium (MS) supplemented with 6-benzylaminopurine (BAP) in concentration 0.3-0.9 mg/L and 0.1 mg/L Indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) was carried out. It was established, that application of 0.5 mg/L BAP was sufficient for the organ formation and development without morphological deviations. Genetic analysis based on RAPD and ISSR-PCR had shown full genetic similarity of the investigated ex situ and in vitro plants.