A spinach-supplemented diet exerts numerous health benefits, but high levels of oxalic acid and nitrate can cause medical problems, so their should be reduced, while the vitamins phytochemicals could further increased by breeding. Conventional spinach breeding is limited very complex sex determination. However, these limitations circumvented in synergy with a biotechnological approach. Accordin...

In plants, complete embryos can develop not only from the zygote, but also from somatic cells in tissue culture. How somatic cells undergo the change in fate to become embryogenic is largely unknown. Proteins, secreted into the culture medium such as endochitinases and arabinogalactan proteins (AGPs) are required for somatic embryogenesis. Here we show that carrot (Daucus carota) AGPs can conta...

bryogenesis is usefu1 for isolating genes expressed during embryogenesis, as embryegenic competence and the expressien of certain embryo-specific genes increases with increased stress. Fluorescent differential display (FDD) was perfonmed to isolate stress-induced genes in carrot somatic embryos, and five genes were isolated as embryonic tissue-specific genes. One ofthese genes was expressed unt...

Eggplant is highly responsive to various tissue culture techniques. Somatic embryogenesis and direct organogenesis are widely studied protocols in this crop, but potential of regeneration varies with genotype, explant and culture media supplemented with different combination and concentration of growth hormones. The genotype is the most important factor affecting somatic embryogenesis and organ...

We report here a method for plant regeneration through somatic embryogenesis from explants collected from immature male inflorescence of adult oil palm cultivated in India. Callus induction was successful from tissues of immature male inflorescence collected from both dura and tenera varieties of oil palm. A modified Y3 (Eeuwens) media supplemented with several additives and activated charcoal ...