scholarly journals Abscisic acid in preservation of Taraxacum pieninicum in the form of synthetic seeds in slow growth conditions

Author(s):  
Monika Kamińska ◽  
Jacek Kęsy ◽  
Alina Trejgell

Abstract Taraxacum pieninicum Pawł. is listed as critically endangered species, for which currently applied protection methods are insufficient. The aim of this study was to investigate the possibility of T. pieninicum storage in the form of synthetic seeds under slow-growth conditions in combination with ABA treatment, as one of the ex situ protection methods of this species. The obtained results indicated that darkness was much more favorable condition for synseed storage and did not generate additional stress during cold exposure in contrast to the light conditions. The preculture of shoot tips on the medium supplemented with ABA led to a decrease in the shoots proliferation rate and inhibition of their growth. ABA clearly inhibited growth of the encapsulated shoot tips also during cold storage. Biochemical parameters showed that ABA effectively reduced the negative effect of the cold stress, what was found on the basis of analyzes of H2O2 and TBARS levels in the stored material. Moreover, synseeds stored under light conditions and treated with ABA exhibited decreased level of endogenous jasmonic acid what indicated interaction between those two phytohormones at a low temperature. The study also demonstrated that in vitro culture, cold storage and ABA treatment had no effect on the flowering process of this species after acclimatization to ex vitro conditions.

2017 ◽  
Vol 132 (3) ◽  
pp. 469-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Kamińska ◽  
Marcin Gołębiewski ◽  
Andrzej Tretyn ◽  
Alina Trejgell

2011 ◽  
pp. 391-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Beruto ◽  
S. Rinino ◽  
A. Bisignano ◽  
M. Fibiani

Author(s):  
Jane Muthoni ◽  
Hussein Shimelis ◽  
Rob Melis

Plant genetic resources (PGRs) play an important role in agriculture, environment protection, cultural property and trade; they need to be conserved. There are two fundamental approaches for the conservation of PGRs: in situ and ex situ. In situ conservation is the conservation of ecosystems and natural habitats and the maintenance and recovery of viable populations of species in their natural surroundings. Ex situ preservation is the storage of seeds or plant materials under artificial conditions to maintain their long term viability and availability for use. Genebanks employ seed storage, field collections of living plants and in vitro storage (tissue culture or cryopreservation) for ex situ preservation of PGR. Storage of orthodox seeds, which are tolerant to low moisture content and low temperatures at appropriate temperature and humidity, is the most convenient ex situ conservation method. Plants that produce recalcitrant seeds or non-viable seeds are conserved in field genebanks as well as in-vitro in slow growth media for short-to-medium term and cryopreservation in liquid nitrogen at -1960C for long-term periods. Cryopreservation is very expensive and needs trained personnel; this could explain why this method is rarely used for conservation of plant genetic resources in most developing countries. Potato tubers are bulky and highly perishable; the crop is generally conserved as clones either in field genebanks (with annual replanting), in-vitro conservation in slow growth media for short-to-medium term and cryopreservation for long term. Field genebanks are expensive to maintain and the crop is exposed to many dangers; hence, cryopreservation is the only feasible method for long term conservation. However, given the high cost of cryopreservation, long-term conservation of potato genetic resources is poorly developed in most resource-poor countries leading to high rates of genetic erosion. This paper looks into the various methods that that can be applied to conserve potato genetic resources and the status of conservation of potatoes in major genebanks and some countries.


Author(s):  
D. L. C. K. Fonseka ◽  
W. W. U. I. Wickramaarachchi ◽  
R. P. S. Madushani

The black-oil tree (Celastrus paniculatus Willd) is a highly valued medicinal plant species belong to the Celastraceae family, known as Jyothishmathi in Ayurveda and Duhundu in Sri Lanka and grows as a perennial vine. It is an endangered medicinal plant species recorded in the red list of endangered fauna and flora of Sri Lanka in 1999. The seed oil of Celastrus paniculatus contains sesquiterpene alkaloids namely; celapagine, celapanigine, celapanine and celastrol, used in traditional system of medicine for various disorders and because of its high pharmaceutical value, plants are over exploited in natural habitats. Owing to poor seed germination and lack of successful vegetative propagation methods, domestication and commercial planting of this important medicinal plant species to meet the demand seems impossible. Therefore, it is of high importance to develop a reliable and efficient in vitro propagation to produce black oil plants for commercial use. In this study, it was attempted to produce synthetic seeds of Celestrus paniculatus via in vitro multiple shoot proliferation. Nodal segment explants were collected from freshly emerged age of sprouts, surface sterilized and cultured in Murashige and Skoog medium supplemented with different 6-benzylaminopurine (BAP) and Thidiazuron (TDZ) concentrations for shoot induction. The highest soot proliferation rate; 25 shoot tips/explant were observed with 0.1 mg/L TDZ. Induced shoot tips were used for synthetic seed production after encapsulating with BAP and a-naphthalene acetic (NAA) enriched sodium alginate. Shoot tip encapsulated beads produced with 4% sodium alginate were firm, clear, round and uniform in size and easy to handle. The influence of growth regulators (BAP and NAA) and storage period on the germination of encapsulated shoot tips was studied to evaluate the success of encapsulated shoot tips as a propagule. The beads germinated with 2 mg/L BAP and 0.2 mg/L NAA provided 80% in vitro germination percentage. Shoot tips of synthetic seeds remained green and healthy after storage at 5°C for a period of 8 weeks. Current findings suggest that encapsulated micro shoots (synthetic seeds) could be produced successfully, as the first step in domestication and conservation of Celastrus paniculatus. Further studies required on rooting of micro shoots, acclimatization and transferring of plantlets produced from synthetic seeds to in vivo conditions for domestication and conservation purposes.


2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 763-771
Author(s):  
ANDRESSA PRISCILA PIANCÓ SANTOS LIMA ◽  
FERNANDA DE JESUS OLIVEIRA BASTOS ◽  
ALONE LIMABRITO ◽  
GILÊNIO BORGES FERNANDES ◽  
JOSÉ RANIERE FERREIRA DE SANTANA

ABSTRACT Bromeliads are the target of predatory extractivism and consequently many species are included in the red list of threatened species, such as those belonging to the genus Neoregelia. Although Neoregelia mucugensis has not been evaluated for the degree of threat, its exploitation is exclusively extractive and its occurrence in Chapada Diamantina-BA is subject to the action of fires that affect the region annually. In this context, applying techniques aimed at protecting this genetic resource is fundamental for both the maintenance of its natural populations and the ex situ conservation of this genetic material. Plant tissue culture techniques have been successfully applied for the conservation of several bromeliad species. One of the methods used is slow growth, which consists in reducing plant metabolism and consequently decelerating its growth, which allows the maintenance of in vitro plant collections without the need for subculture. In this context, the objective of this study was to test the reduction of salts in the culture medium and the addition of osmoregulators on the induction of slow growth of N. mucugensis. Plants were subjected to treatments composed of different concentrations of MS medium and mannitol for a period of 12 months, when then analyses were conducted to evaluate growth, chlorophyll content and regeneration capacity of shoots in vitro. It was found that the treatment containing MS ½ and 7.8 g.L-1 of mannitol is indicated for in vitro conservation of N. mucugensis with maintenance of the regenerative capacity of its tissues.


Author(s):  
Danuta Kucharska ◽  
Robert Maciorowski ◽  
Małgorzata Kunka ◽  
Angelika Niewiadomska-Wnuk

Short storage of in vitro cultures under slow-growth conditions is included in the commercial large-scale micropropagation process. It is dictated by the organizational scheme that provides temporary stop multiplication of shoots for some months. To avoid subculturing to fresh media every 4 weeks, which is obligatory for gooseberry, they can be kept in conditions that protect them from ageing, by slowing down their metabolism. To develop a rational schedule of gooseberry micropropagation, two experiments were used to adopt a temperature and length of time for storage. The best results were obtained with storage conditions at 2 °C for two or four months for proliferating cultures. Under these conditions, the percentage of necrotic shoots was low (< 10%), and shoot proliferation in the subsequent passages was at a level similar to proliferation cultures incubated in the growth room and sub-cultured monthly. The rate of shoots > 1 cm was higher than in the control in the growth room. Storage at 4 °C increased the probability of necrotic shoots up to 80% and decreased the number of all shoots and shoots > 1 cm in subsequent passages.


2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-49
Author(s):  
Priyanka Sharma ◽  
Bidhan Roy

In order to conserve diverse species of citrus, an experiment on in vitro micropropagation and production of synthetic seeds from in vitro regenerated plant propagules of the species; Citrus aurantifolia (Lime) was carried out in which shoot tips were found to be suitable for excapsulation of artificial seeds. Highest rate of germination was obtained from the shoot tips when MS was supplemented with 1 mg/l BAP. Beaded shoot tips produced maximum germination (81.43%). Germinated synthetic seeds with well established roots and shoots were were taken out from the culture bottles and transferred in plastic cups containing a mixture of sterile soil: sand and farmyard manure at a ratio of 1:1:1. Seedlings were further shifted in earthen pots and kept in a partial shed net house for 7 days. Those seedlings were finally transferred under the field conditions for acclimatization. Plant Tissue Cult. & Biotech. 31(1): 43-49, 2021 (June)


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 146
Author(s):  
Daniela Vasconcelos de Oliveira ◽  
Izulmé Rita Imaculada Santos ◽  
Ildeu Soares Martins ◽  
Antonieta Nassif Salomão

Pfaffia glomerata (Amaranthaceae), “Brazilian Ginseng”, is a medicinal plant used in folk medicine. Roots are used as a tonic to restore and enhance wellbeing and for treatment of arthritis, gastritis and rheumatism. Conservation of P. glomerata germplasm is a priority and cryopreservation is the most promising technique for long-term storage of plant genetic resources. Hence, the objective of this work was to develop a cryopreservation protocol for shoot tips of P. glomerata using vitrification techniques. For cryopreservation, shoot tips (ST) from in vitro grown plants were pre-cultured for 19 hr on MS medium containing 0.3 M sucrose, treated with loading and vitrification solutions prior to rapid freezing by direct plunge in liquid nitrogen, rapid thawing on a water bath at 38±2 °C and treatment with a dilution solution. Three vitrification solutions (PVS2, PVS3 and PVS4), three exposure times (20 min., 40 min. and 60 min.) and two temperatures (25 °C and 0 °C) were tested. After cryopreservation, rewarmed shoot tips were inoculated on MS growth medium and the best regeneration percentages were 63%, 42% and 65% for shoot tips treated with PVS2, PVS3 and PVS4, respectively, for 60 min., at 25 °C. The results obtained show that vitrification with PVS2 and PVS4, at 25 °C, for 60 min were the best treatments for successful cryopreservation of shoot tips of in vitro grown plantlets of P. glomerata and that cryopreservation is suitable for ex situ conservation of the germplasm of this medicinal species.


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