Somaclonal variations for crop improvement: Selection for disease resistant variants in vitro

Authors

  • Veena S Anil UAS, Bangalore
  • Savitha Lobo Department of Plant Biotechnology, Gandhi Krishi Vignana Kendra (GKVK), University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), Bangalore 560065, India
  • Spurti Bennur Department of Plant Biotechnology, Gandhi Krishi Vignana Kendra (GKVK), University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), Bangalore 560065, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14719/pst.2018.5.2.382

Keywords:

Somaclonal variations, biotechnology, crop improvement, in vitro selection, disease resistance, culture filtrate, pathotoxins

Abstract

Somaclonal variations (SV) are genetic or epigenetic changes induced in plant cell and tissue culture. Induction of somaclonal variation, is an alternate approach to conventional breeding and transgenic approaches to introduce desirable genetic variability in the gene pool. SVs that occur spontaneously in culture induce changes in a range of plant characters. However, the probability of improving a key agronomic trait such as disease resistance can be cumbersome when left to chance alone. The efficiency of developing disease resistant SVs is better with the imposition of an appropriate in vitro selection pressure. Selection agents that have been applied include pathogen elicitors, pathogen culture filtrate and purified pathotoxins. This method of SV selection has been successful in enhancing disease resistance in several crops and it is an accepted biotechnological approach with tremendous potential for crop improvement.

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Author Biography

Veena S Anil, UAS, Bangalore

Plant biochemist at the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, currently working on Late blight resistance mechanisms in potato genotypes both at the whole plant and cellular levels. Earlier worked as Visiting Fellow at NCBS Bangalore on salt tolerance mecahanisms in rice. PhD degree from the department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

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Anil VS, Lobo S, Bennur S. Somaclonal variations for crop improvement: Selection for disease resistant variants in vitro. Plant Sci. Today [Internet]. 2018 Mar. 27 [cited 2024 Nov. 21];5(2):44-5. Available from: https://horizonepublishing.com/journals/index.php/PST/article/view/382

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