Abstract
ABSTRACT: The aim of the present study was to induce the formation of somatic embryos in protocorms from Phalaenopsis Classic Spotted Pink hybrids at two physiological maturation stages, namely: 80 and 120 days after seed inoculation (DASI). Protocorms were inoculated in ½ MS medium supplemented with 0.1 mg L-1 ANA and 3 mg L-1 TDZ. Protocorms were inoculated 120 days after sowing were more developed at the 15th cultivation day due to the formation of pro-embryogenic structures. It was possible seeing the formation of globular- and torpedo-stage somatic embryos at the 30th day of cultivation in somatic embryogenesis (SE) induction medium. The protocorms inoculated at the 80th DASI did not formed somatic embryos; they oxidized 20 days after cultivation in SE-induction medium. The formation of somatic embryos happened directly on the explant, thus characterizing a direct somatic embryogenesis. The embryos converted into plants when the somatic embryos were transferred to the nutrient medium containing no growth regulator. Therefore, it was concluded that the somatic embryos induction from protocorms 120 days after sowing was positive, since the embryos were able to become plants and presented vegetative organs with morphological traits similar to those of the matrix plant.
Highlights
RESUMO: O presente estudo buscou induzir a formação de embriões somáticos em protocormos do híbrido Phalaenopsis Classic Spotted Pink em dois estádios de maturação fisiológica aos 80 e 120 dias após a inoculação das sementes (DAIS)
In light of the foregoing, the aim of the current study was to analyze the somatic embryogenesis induction in protocorms from the Phalaenopsis Classic Spotted Pink hybrid at two different physiological maturation stages, namely: 80 and 120 days after seed inoculation (DASI)
30 explants showing physiological ages 80 and 120 DASI were inoculated in test tubes containing 10 mL of the aforementioned nutrient medium and kept in the dark in a growth room at 25 ± 2 oC in order to assess the somatic embryogenesis-induction period
Summary
RESUMO: O presente estudo buscou induzir a formação de embriões somáticos em protocormos do híbrido Phalaenopsis Classic Spotted Pink em dois estádios de maturação fisiológica aos 80 e 120 dias após a inoculação das sementes (DAIS). Protocorm stage is featured by the development of the zygote embryo, which may be an explant used to induce somatic embryogenesis, since its structure has juvenile and meristematic tissues.
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