Abstract
To maintain embryogenic cell lines ofPimpinella brachycarpa, we suspension-cultured friable and rapidly growing yellowish calli in an MS liquid medium containing 0.2 ~ 2,4-D and 0.5pM BAP. Efficient somatic embryogenesis was achieved when selected cells were then transferred to an MS medium (0.2% gelrite) that contained 0.2gM 2,4-D, 0.5 uM BAP, and 10.0 laM TDZ (thidiazuron). These cells were cultured at 27°C under continuous illumination (21.5 I~E m-2 s-l). Embryogenic calli expanded about four-fold, and developed into pale yellow calli. Somatic embryogenesis was initiated only from glossy and nodular-type calli. After two more weeks of culture, globular embryos appeared on the surface of calli grown in the MS medium that contained 10.0 /aM TDZ only, or in combination with 0.5 gM NAA. Experimenting with 2,4-D, an auxin, to promote embryogenic calli resulted in excessive browning and death. We overcame this problem by growing glossy embryogenic and nodular calli on media that contained 10.0 gM TDZ. Calli that were not treated with TDZ turned dark brown and were not viable. Up to 74% of the calli showed somatic embryos when the medium was supplemented with 10.0 uM TDZ and 0.5 uM NAA. Embryos from these TDZ-induced, somatic embryogenic calli grew efficiently, forming multiple shoots and developing into normal plants. Therefore, efficient differentiation of suspension-cultured cell clusters into embryogenic calli, along with treatment of subsequent somatic embryos by TDZ, suggests that TDZ probably helps in establishing the optimum cytokinin-auxin ratio required for induction and expression of somatic embryogenesis.
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