Somaclonal variation in plants: causes and detection methods

MW Bairu, AO Aremu, J Van Staden - Plant Growth Regulation, 2011 - Springer
Plant tissue culture has become one of the fundamental tools of plant science research. It is
extensively employed in the production, conservation and improvement of plant resources …

Nuclear DNA amounts in angiosperms: targets, trends and tomorrow

MD Bennett, IJ Leitch - Annals of botany, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims The amount of DNA in an unreplicated gametic chromosome
complement is known as the C-value and is a key biodiversity character of fundamental …

Two new nuclear isolation buffers for plant DNA flow cytometry: a test with 37 species

J Loureiro, E Rodriguez, J Doležel, C Santos - Annals of botany, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims After the initial boom in the application of flow cytometry in
plant sciences in the late 1980s and early 1990s, which was accompanied by development …

Non-zygotic embryogenesis in hardwood species

E Corredoira, SA Merkle, MT Martínez… - Critical Reviews in …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Hardwood species are valuable biological resources that have an important role in the
economy and ecology of ecosystems worldwide. Non-zygotic or somatic embryogenesis …

Flow cytometry in plant breeding

SJ Ochatt - Cytometry Part A: the journal of the International …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Since the first report on the flow cytometric study of plant material 35 years ago, analyzing
the nuclear DNA content of field bean, an ever increasing number of applications of FCM …

Flow cytometric and microscopic analysis of the effect of tannic acid on plant nuclei and estimation of DNA content

JÃO Loureiro, E Rodriguez, J DOLEŽEL… - Annals of …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Background and Aims Flow cytometry (FCM) is extensively used to estimate DNA ploidy and
genome size in plants. In order to determine nuclear DNA content, nuclei in suspension are …

Morphological and cytological studies of diploid and colchicine-induced tetraploid lines of crape myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica L.)

YM Ye, J Tong, XP Shi, W Yuan, GR Li - Scientia Horticulturae, 2010 - Elsevier
The tips of cotyledon-stage seedlings of three crape myrtle cultivars (“Zi Wei”,“Hong Wei”
and “Yin Wei”) were treated with colchicine. Various concentrations of colchicine and …

In vitro tetraploid induction via colchicine treatment from diploid somatic embryos in grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.)

XM Yang, ZY Cao, LZ An, YM Wang, XW Fang - Euphytica, 2006 - Springer
A protocol for in vitro induction of tetraploids via colchicine-treated somatic embryos from
immature zygotic embryos of diploid grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) is reported. Embryogenic …

Ploidy level determination within the context of in vitro breeding

SJ Ochatt, EM Patat-Ochatt, A Moessner - Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ …, 2011 - Springer
Variations in genome size and chromosome complement of species provide very useful
information for biosystematic studies, and also because they influence a range of ecological …

Quercus

PR Aldrich, J Cavender-Bares - Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding …, 2011 - Springer
The genus Quercus (the oaks) is an important tree taxon and we review here several
aspects of its biology relevant to domestication and summarize progress to date in breeding …