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In-vitro-Induced Mutations for Disease Resistance

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Somaclonal Variation and Induced Mutations in Crop Improvement

Part of the book series: Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture ((PSBA,volume 32))

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Spontaneous mutations form the basis of the variation used by plant breeders for plant improvement. Induced mutants supplement natural gene pools. Mutation induction has the advantage that the target genotype is changed only slightly, relative to the genotype derived by crossing of two varieties, and thus the time required to develop a new variety is considerably reduced. Advances in plant cell, tissue and organ culture have provided new opportunities for the production of ‘solid’ mutants, i.e. homohistonts (Broertjes and van Harten, 1988) and, potentially, for the preliminary screening of large numbers of mutants (Dix, 1990). Historically, mutagenic treatments of bulky vegetative propagules have presented serious limitations regarding the numbers that could be treated. Furthermore, bearing in mind that the frequency of useful mutants is low, the treated material has presented problems for the evaluator. The latter are compounded by the frequent occurrence of chimaeral progeny which show instability of the characters (Broertjes and van Harten, 1988). Mutagenesis of in-vitro propagules avoids the need for large-scale facilities and also allows better control of the treatment, as ‘vitrified’ tissue (Ziv, 1991) may be more permeable to mutagens.

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  1. Department of Plant Science, University College, Cork, Ireland

    A. C. Cassells

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  1. Department of Plant Production, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    S. M. Jain

  2. Plant Breeding, Genetics and Biochemistry Division, International Rice Research Institute, 1099, Manila, Philippines

    D. S. Brar

  3. Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, Vienna, Austria

    B. S. Ahloowalia

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Cassells, A.C. (1998). In-vitro-Induced Mutations for Disease Resistance. In: Jain, S.M., Brar, D.S., Ahloowalia, B.S. (eds) Somaclonal Variation and Induced Mutations in Crop Improvement. Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture, vol 32. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9125-6_18

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