Claim · model-written summary
Almost 80% of whole-embryo plantlets were successfully acclimatized under greenhouse conditions.
- Taxon
- avocado
Persea americanae1 - Organ / stage
- whole embryos derived plantletse4
- Outcome
- successfully acclimatizede4
- Value
- Almost 80%e4
- Setting
- greenhouse conditionse4
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Verbatim
e1“In the present work radiation-induced mutation followed by in vitro culture of zygotic embryos and high osmotic pressure selection methods to improve salt tolerance in avocado are investigated”
e4“Almost 80% of the whole embryos derived plantlets produced were successfully acclimatized under greenhouse conditions”
Title
Jorge Luı́s Fuentes; L. Santiago; Amaury Álvarez; et al. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) 2009
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Germination rates of whole embryos in vitro were higher with mature rather than immature embryos in avocado.
- Method / resource An in vitro propagation method for avocado breeding was optimized and documented.
- Observation A mutagenic dose of gamma rays giving LD50 of 27-28 Gy was established for avocado embryos.
- Observation A selective NaCl dose giving LD20 of 157 mM was established for avocado embryos.
- Observation Putative mutant lines were developed from salt tolerant avocado rootstocks.
- Observation An avocado gene bank was established in the study.
- Recommendation The authors state that the combined methodology is an alternative to traditional breeding methods for salt tolerance in avocado.
- Recommendation The authors state that bud multiplication methods in avocado need improvement.