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- Title
Recovering polyploid papaya in vitro regenerants as screened by flow cytometry.
- Authors
Wellington Clarindo; Carlos de Carvalho; Fernanda Araújo; Isabella de Abreu; Wagner Otoni
- Abstract
Abstract  Several protocols have been proposed for in vitro propagation of papaya, either based on somatic embryogenesis or shoot organogenesis. It is well-known that tissue culture-based approaches are frequently associated with somaclonal variation. Whether on the one hand this phenomenon can preclude further stages of in vitro culture, on the other hand it can generate useful genetic variability for crop improvement. However, somaclonal variation analyses are limited in papaya tissue culture. The DNA ploidy level of 250 papaya somatic embryogenesis-derived plantlets from immature zygotic embryos was analyzed by flow cytometry. In vitro-grown and greenhouse seed-derived plantlets were used as diploid standards. Flow cytometry unambiguously evidenced euploid (diploid, mixoploid, triploid and tetraploid) and aneuploid papaya plantlets, indicating that in vitro culture conditions can lead the occurrence of somaclonal variation. Additionally, the two subsequent flow cytometry analyses showed that the DNA ploidy level remained stable in all cloned papaya plantlets during the successive subcultures in the multiplication medium.
- Subjects
PAPAYA; FLOW cytometry; SOMATIC embryogenesis; PLANT morphogenesis
- Publication
Plant Cell, Tissue & Organ Culture, 2008, Vol 92, Issue 2, p207
- ISSN
0167-6857
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1007/s11240-007-9325-1