saffron (crocus sativus l.) protoplasts were isolated from the cells of a suspension culture or calli with a solution of cellulase, pectinase and hemicellulase and embedded in ca-alginate beads. they were cultured with or without nurse cells in ms medium supplemented with 2,4-d and 6-benzylaminopurine at 25°c. after several changes of medium, cell-clusters appeared on the surface of the ca-algi...

Protoplasts, protoplast extracts (intact chloroplasts plus extrachloroplastic material), and chloroplasts isolated from protoplasts of wheat (Triticum aestivum) have rates of photosynthesis as measured by light-dependent O(2) evolution of about 100 to 150 micromoles of O(2) per milligram of chlorophyll per hour at 20 C and saturating bicarbonate. The assay conditions sufficient for this activit...

Intraspecific hybrid production from the polyethylene glycol induced fusion of yeast protoplasts was greatly increased when calcium propionate was included as the source of the requisite Ca2+. The use of calcium propionate, as opposed to the more commonly employed calcium chloride, resulted in substantially greater yields of hybrids from intraspecific fusions of protoplasts of Saccharomyces cer...