Impatiens walleriana Hook.f. is a popular bedding plant with a variety of flower colours excepting yellow. Transfer of this characteristic could be achieved through somatic hybridization, thus this study was an attempt to establish the basic parameters of tissue and protoplast culture. The condition of the stock plants and surface sterilisation techniques are important for this species. Most tissues responded to trials for callus induction with rhizogenesis. Evaluation of media and plant growth regulator combinations revealed that axillary shoot proliferation was most efficient on MS medium with 3.0 mg/L BAP and 0.1 mg/L IBA. Protoplast isolation was most effective in 0.5% w/v cellulase and 0.25% w/v pectinase with 0.25 M mannitol and 0.25 M glucose yielding 2.70 $ times$ 10$ sp5$ protoplasts per gram of leaf tissue. The presence of mucous, raphids and excessive debris inhibited successful culture of leaf mesophyll protoplasts. Cotyledon protoplasts show promise for such investigations.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.59575 |
| Date | January 1989 |
| Creators | Delafield, Susan J. |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Plant Science.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001070638, proquestno: AAIMM63729, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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