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Accelerating Variety Release With Double Haploids, Sue Broughton Jan 1999

Accelerating Variety Release With Double Haploids, Sue Broughton

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

The use of plant tissue culture to produce special lines called doubled haploids is reducing the time taken to breed new varieties of cereal crops by up to three years. Sue Broughton outlines what doubled haploids are, how they are produced, and why they have been able to short circuit the usual lengthy breeding process.


Callus Production And Plant Regeneration From Anther Culture Of Some Turkish Barley Cultivars, Çi̇ğdem Savaşkan, Ivona Szarejko, M. Ci̇hat Toker Jan 1999

Callus Production And Plant Regeneration From Anther Culture Of Some Turkish Barley Cultivars, Çi̇ğdem Savaşkan, Ivona Szarejko, M. Ci̇hat Toker

Turkish Journal of Botany

Anther culture of four different barley cultivars ( Hordeum vulgareL. cvs. Anadolu, Cumhuriyet-50, Obruk-86 and Tokak-157/37) currently cultivated in Turkey has been investigated. Two different culture media (BAC3 and FHG) were used and the effect of a 21-day cold pretreatment was studied. Androgenesis on BAC3 medium was evaluated statistically in all genotypes and the percentage of anther response and the frequency of calli production were found significantly different (P