Rye is an important crop in Northern and Eastern Europe. However, the application of various biotechnologies in rye breeding has been limited duo to its recalcitrant in tissue culture. In order to improve somatic tissue effi ciency, key factors affecting somatic embryogenesis and reproducible green plant regeneration of rye (Secale cereale L.) were evaluated and optimised. In this study, a tota...

Introduction Cumin (Cuminum cyminum L.) is a commercial plant which is valued for its aroma and its medicinal and therapeutic properties. Although India has been the primary exporter of cumin seeds and cumin oil in the world. However Turkey and Iran are providing stiff competition now. India, Turkey, Syria, China, the US, Iran, Indonesia, Sudan, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, and Libya are the leadin...

Induction of somatic embryogenesis in absence of exogenous auxin can clarify some basic concepts of somatic embryogenesis.  Explants from leaf and petiole of Cucumber (Cucumis sativus) were used in this experiment for somatic embryogenesis using three different modified B5 basal media; boron and 2,4-D but no IAA as control (I), boron and IAA but no 2,4-D (II) and no boron, 2,4-D and IAA (III). ...

Hairy roots culture is a potential system for secondary metabolite production in medicinal plants. In this research, hairy root induction in Echinacea angustifolia was established using Agrobacterium rhizogenes. The effects of dif-ferent A. rhizogenes strains (AR15834, A4, K599 and MSU440) in two solid growth regula-tor-free culture media, half strength MS salts with B5 vitamins and WPM, were e...

The present study was conducted to induce callus from different in vitro grown seedling explants of shoot, root and leaf segments in order to develop shoot buds and rooting from callus. The sterilized seeds were cultured on Murashige and Skoog medium, and then the explants were cultured from seedling and transferred to an MS medium supplemented with different concentrations of BAP, kinetin, NAA...

abstract in vitro leaf explants of gf677 hybrid rootstock and rabi cultivar were placed on mql medium supplemented with bap at 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4 mg/l and naa at 0, 0.15 and 0.3 mg/l concentrations. the results revealed that bap, naa, genotype and their interactions had significant effect on both percentage and mean number of the regenerated shoots. for gf677, the highest percentage of shoot rege...

In order to enhance the system of potato transformation and further regeneration, four potato cultivars were transformed using the Agrobacterium tumefaciens harboring â-glucuronidase (GUS) gene.The results revealed that the highest percentages of shoot formation obtained were for Spunta cv. Stem explants resulted in more callus and regeneration after transformation and selection than leaf expla...