Variation amongst protoplast-derived potato plants (Solatium tuberosum cv. ‘Maris Bard’)
- 1 March 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Theoretical and Applied Genetics
- Vol. 62 (1) , 65-68
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00276285
Abstract
Plants were obtained from protoplasts of shoot cultures of potato (Solarium tuberosum L. cv. ‘Maris Bard’) and from in situ calluses upon plants of cv. ‘Majestic’. None of the protoplast-derived plants resembled each other in all of ten morphological characteristics scored and only one resembled the parental ‘Maris Bard’ type. As there were a number of plants regenerated from each of ten protoplast-derived calluses it is concluded that variation arose after protoplast isolation during the cell culture phase. Plants regenerated from in situ calluses of cv. ‘Majestic’ were quite uniform. Reported cases of variation and uniformity from cultured potato tissues are discussed. It is concluded that the variation is not a consequence of using protoplasts and that the expression or induction of variation is controllable.Keywords
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