Track 1-04: Germplasm Preservation, Domestication and Use of Native Forage Plants
Publication Date
2013
Location
Sydney, Australia
Description
Hemarthria compressa is an important warm-season forage grass for use in Southwest China. However, due to poor seed set, it is propagated by vegetative cuttings of stolons, rhizomes, and nodal sections. The in vitro propagation of H. compressa is still faced with difficulties including blackening or browning of tissues prior to culturing due to the oxidation of phenolic compounds by polyphenolic oxidase enzyme present in excised tissue (Yang et al. 2008). The objectives of the study were to investigate possible means of successful initiation of cultures through elimination of phenolic browning.
Citation
Yang, Chunhua; Xu, Yaohua; Chen, Lingzhi; and Sui, Yifang, "Controlling Lethal Browning of Hemarthria compressa Tissue Cultures" (2013). IGC Proceedings (1985-2023). 18.
(URL: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/igc/22/1-4/18)
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Controlling Lethal Browning of Hemarthria compressa Tissue Cultures
Sydney, Australia
Hemarthria compressa is an important warm-season forage grass for use in Southwest China. However, due to poor seed set, it is propagated by vegetative cuttings of stolons, rhizomes, and nodal sections. The in vitro propagation of H. compressa is still faced with difficulties including blackening or browning of tissues prior to culturing due to the oxidation of phenolic compounds by polyphenolic oxidase enzyme present in excised tissue (Yang et al. 2008). The objectives of the study were to investigate possible means of successful initiation of cultures through elimination of phenolic browning.
