Abstract
The aim of the study was to determine the chromosome number and nuclear DNA content of an endemic plant, V. scamandri, using 14-week-old plants germinated from seed and to determine the genetic stability based on flow cytometry analyses in callus tissue induced MS medium containing 1 mg/L Kin + 1 mg/L 2,4-D and 9-week-old propagated plants, induced and developed on MS medium containing 2 mg/L Kin + 0.1 mg/L 2,4-D. In the mitotic chromosome counts showed V. scamandri had 2n = 16. Flow cytometric analysis revealed that 14-week-old in vitro grown plants has 0.73 pg/2C ± 0.01, callus tissue has 0.76 pg/2C ± 0.02 and propagated plantlets has as 0.79 pg/2C ± 0.01. The results proved that propagated plants had similar DNA content to the seed-derived plants which showed analysed plants were genetically stable.
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