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- Title
Brassinosteroid increases the cytokinin efficiency to induce direct somatic embryogenesis in leaf explants of Coffea arabica L. (Rubiaceae).
- Authors
Chone, Rosana Mary Sartor; Rocha, Diego Ismael; Monte-Bello, Carolina Cassano; Pinheiro, Hildete Prisco; Dornelas, Marcelo Carnier; Haddad, Claudia Regina Baptista; Almeida, Julieta Andrea Silva
- Abstract
The combination of different plant growth regulators can result in beneficial effects in the induction of in vitro morphogenetic pathways. The present study reports the effect of 24-epibrassinolid (24-epiBR; brassinosteroid) when added alone and in association with N6-(2-isopentnyl) adenine (2-iP; cytokinin) in the induction of direct somatic embryogenesis in Coffea arabica. Leaf explants were cultivated in a modified Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium with 0 or 10 µM 2-iP and different concentrations (0.01, 0.10 or 1.0 µM) of 24-epiBR. Explants cultured on MS medium supplemented with 1.0 µM 24-epiBR in association with 2-iP produced 6.8 times more somatic embryos than the explants cultured with only 2-iP. Histological analyses also provided evidence that the supplementation of brassinosteroids in the culture medium could have influenced somatic embryogenesis differentiation. Somatic embryos obtained in the presence of brassinosteroid and cytokinin were better structured morpho-histologically as compared to those obtained in the medium with just cytokinin. This study opens new perspectives for the use of brassinosteroids in the somatic embryogenesis of C. arabica, so as to optimize the in vitro regeneration systems used in genetic improvement programs in C. arabica productive systems.
- Subjects
BRASSINOSTEROIDS; CYTOKININS; COFFEE
- Publication
Plant Cell, Tissue & Organ Culture, 2018, Vol 135, Issue 1, p63
- ISSN
0167-6857
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11240-018-1443-4