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In wheat, plants may be regenerated from microspores via direct embryogenesis or organogenesis or embryogenesis from callus. Light and scanning electron microscopy were used to carefully study morphogenesis of microspore-derived plants from anther culture on modified 85D12 starch medium and to determine whether the plants were formed via organogenesis or embryogenesis. Our results indicate that plants are formed via embryogenesis from microspores. Evidence for embryogenesis included the formation of the epidermis and a suspensorlike structure (21 days after culture), followed by initiation of an apical meristem, differentiation of the scutellum, and embryo elongation. At 28 days in culture, the embryo possessed a well-developed scutellum and axis with suspensor. Embryogenesis was further confirmed by coleoptile and radicle elongation during germination when the embryos were cultured on medium supplemented with kinetin with or without coconut water. In this system, an average 67 microspores per responsive anther began cell division but only 3.69 embryos were formed per responsive anther after 6 wk. Adventitious embryos could be induced if the embryos, once formed, remained on initiation medium for 10 wk instead of being transferred to regeneration medium. Developmental stages which may be amenable to changes that could enhance plant production were identified. The potential to use this information to enhance plant production is discussed.
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Rybczynski, J.J., Simonson, R.L. & Baenziger, P.S. Evidence for microspore embryogenesis in wheat anther culture. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol - Plant 27, 168–174 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02632212
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