• KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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• v.42 no.5
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• pp.615-625
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• 1997

An efficient protocol for plant regeneration from protoplasts of the indica rice variety IR43 has been developed. The procedure involved plating of embryogenic suspension-derived protoplasts on the surface of a filter membrane overlaying agarose-embedded feeder cells. Lolium multiflorum cell suspensions were preferable to these of Oryza ridleyi as feeder cells and Lolium suspensions supported colony formation from up to 0.68％ of the protoplasts, depending on the age of cell suspensions. Plant regeneration frequency was significantly improved by using maltose alone or in a 1:1(w/w) combination with sucrose as carbohydrate source and a simple dehydration treatment using a high concentration of agarose in the regeneration medium. Medium containing maltose or maltose mixed with sucrose increased the plant regeneration frequency compared with medium containing sucrose alone. The plant regeneration frequency was increased to 30.7 to 70.7％ following dehydration treatment, while the non-treated controls showed a regeneration frequency of 3.1 to 30.6％. Protoplast-derived plants were transferred to the glasshouse, flowered with morphologically normal.

• Korean Journal of Plant Tissue Culture
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.263-271
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• 2001

Inoculated anthers of Capsicum annuum L. were subjected to 4 and 32$^{\circ}C$ pretreatment and their influence on the microspore viability, early cytological changes and the induction frequency of microspore embryo was investigated. Viability of freshly isolated microspores was between 62 and 64%. During temperature pretreatment, microspore viability showed a rapid decrease and this tendency enhanced with the 32$^{\circ}C$ pretreatment. Irrespective of temperature pretreatment, microspore viability declined to nearly zero after nine days. Before temperature pretreatment, most of the microspores in anthers were at late uninucleate stage. Several types of multinuclear microspores appeared from the 2 day after culture onwards, together with many degenerated and non-induced microspores. The 32$^{\circ}C$ pretreatment gave higher proportions of embryogenic microspore than other treatment. However, the temperature pretreatment had no clear effect on the frequencies of symmetrical binucleate rnicrospore. The multinucleate grains might originate either by symmetrical or asymmetrical division. After 2 days of pretreatment at 25 and 32$^{\circ}C$ , degenerated microspore increased above 50%. In contrast, during 4$^{\circ}C$ treatment, nucleus of most microspores remained intact for 14 days. The 32$^{\circ}C$ pretreatment produced more embryos than 4$^{\circ}C$ treatment. The most effective period of 32$^{\circ}C$ pretreatment was 4 days. In contrast, effective period of 4$^{\circ}C$ pretreatment was 2 days and longer time had deleterious effect on induction of microspore embryo.