Impact of explants and gamma irradiation dosage on In vitro mutagenesis in carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus L.).

2005 ◽  
Vol 07 (01) ◽  
pp. 43-45
Author(s):  
T.H. Paramesh ◽  
Sona Chowdhury
Author(s):  
V. M. Kulkarni ◽  
T. R. Ganapathi ◽  
P. Suprasanna ◽  
V. A. Bapat

2012 ◽  
Vol 92 (6) ◽  
pp. 1049-1055
Author(s):  
M. M. Q. Baig ◽  
I. A. Hafiz ◽  
N. A. Abbasi ◽  
M. Yaseen ◽  
Z. Akram ◽  
...  

Baig, M. M. Q., Hafiz, I. A., Abbasi, N. A., Yaseen, M., Akram, Z. and Donnelly, D. J. 2012. Reduced-stature Rosa species through in vitro mutagenesis. Can. J. Plant Sci. 92: 1049–1055. Plant height is one of the main attributes affecting general appeal and beauty of roses (Rosa spp.). Among the highly scented rose species, R. gruss an teplitz, R. centifolia, and R. borboniana, have great potential horticultural and commercial value. However, their large plant size detracts from recent trends towards selection of smaller plants for emerging markets and high-density plantations. This study aimed to produce reduced-stature plants through in vitro mutagenesis using gamma irradiation (Co60). Shoot tips cut from micropropagated shoots were exposed up to 120 Gy. Irradiated shoot tips were micropropagated for one culture cycle. Surviving shoots were rooted in vitro then acclimatized for 2 mo in a greenhouse. The shoot tip LD50 after gamma irradiation was species-dependent and 33–54 Gy. In this dose range, survival during in vitro rooting and acclimatization was also affected; this was 64 to 24% and 34 to 14% of control values, respectively. Acclimatized transplants were 17 to 56% smaller with 16 to 51% less leaf area compared with the controls. In order to ascertain stability putative reduced-stature roses will be monitored for vegetative and floral characteristics over the next few years. This study adds to the ongoing efforts to obtain reduced-stature rose plants for horticultural purposes.


Genetics ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 151 (4) ◽  
pp. 1261-1272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Salem ◽  
Natalie Walter ◽  
Robert Malone

Abstract REC104 is a gene required for the initiation of meiotic recombination in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. To better understand the role of REC104 in meiosis, we used an in vitro mutagenesis technique to create a set of temperature-conditional mutations in REC104 and used one ts allele (rec104-8) in a screen for highcopy suppressors. An increased dosage of the early exchange gene REC102 was found to suppress the conditional recombinational reduction in rec104-8 as well as in several other conditional rec104 alleles. However, no suppression was observed for a null allele of REC104, indicating that the suppression by REC102 is not “bypass” suppression. Overexpression of the early meiotic genes REC114, RAD50, HOP1, and RED1 fails to suppress any of the rec104 conditional alleles, indicating that the suppression might be specific to REC102.


2009 ◽  
Vol 36 (No. 4) ◽  
pp. 140-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.K. Kanwar ◽  
S. Kumar

The influence of growth regulators, explants and their interactions on in vitro shoot bud formation from callus was studied in <I>Dianthus caryophyllus</I> L. The leaf and internode explants were cultured on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium containing different concentrations of growth regulators. The highest callus induction was observed with 2 mg/l 2,4-dichlorophenoxy acetic acid (2,4-D) and 1 mg/l benzyl adenine (BA). Out of twenty seven shoot regeneration media tested, only 2 mg/l thidiazuron (TDZ) and zeatin alone or in combination with naphthalene acetic acid (NAA) and/or indole acetic acid (IAA) could differentiate calli. The highest average number of shoots was observed with 2 mg/l TDZ and 1 mg/l IAA. Significant differences were observed in calli producing shoots and number of shoots per callus in the explants of leaf and internode. The shoots were elongated and multiplied on MS medium supplemented with 1 mg/l BA and solidified with 1% agar. The shoots were rooted and hardened with 76% survival success in pots after six weeks of transfer to the pots.


1982 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 412-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
S I Reed ◽  
J Ferguson ◽  
J C Groppe

The CDC28 gene was subcloned from a plasmid containing a 6.5-kilobase-pair segment of Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA YRp7(CDC28-3) by partial digestion with Sau3A and insertion of the resulting fragments into the BamHI sites of YRp7 and pRC1. Recombinant plasmids were obtained containing inserts of 4.4 and 3.1 kilobase pairs which were capable of complementing a cdc28(ts) mutation. R-loop analysis indicated that each yeast insert contained two RNA coding regions of about 0.8 and 1.0 kilobase pairs, respectively. In vitro mutagenesis experiments suggested that the smaller coding region corresponded to the CDC28 gene. When cellular polyadenylic acid-containing RNA, separated by agarose gel electrophoresis after denaturation with glyoxal and transferred to nitrocellulose membrane, was reacted with labeled DNA from the smaller coding region, and RNA species of about 1 kilobase in length was detected. Presumably, the discrepancy in size between the R-loop and electrophoretic determinations is due to a segment of polyadenylic acid which is excluded from the R-loops. By using hybridization of the histone H2B mRNAs to an appropriate probe as a previously determined standards, it was possible to estimate the number of CDC28 mRNA copies per haploid cell as between 6 and 12 molecules. Hybrid release translation performed on the CDC29 mRNA directed the synthesis of a polypeptide of 27,000 daltons, as determined by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in sodium dodecyl sulfate. This polypeptide was not synthesized when mRNA prepared from a cdc28 nonsense mutant was translated in a parallel fashion. However, if the RNA from a cell containing the CDC28 gene on a plasmid maintained at a high copy number was translated, the amount of in vitro product was amplified fivefold.


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