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A 2-stage in vitro tuberization process comprising first micropropagation via nodal explants and then tuber induction in the resultant in vitro plantlets was studied using 2 cultivars of potato, Iwa and Daeji. In particular, the effects on both plantlet growth and subsequent in vitro tuberization of Murashige and Skoog (1962) basal medium containing either sucrose or maltose, each at 3 % (w/v), used for micropropagation were investigated. Sucrose and maltose were found to be equally effective in supporting development of vigorous plantlets from the nodal explants of both potato cultivars. Upon transfer to a medium with an optimised level of sucrose (i.e. 8 %, w/v) for in vitro tuberization, only the plantlets previously grown in the sucrose-containing medium were capable of forming more microtubers of the larger size category (greater than 0.5 g). The relative importance of sucrose supply at the mircropropagation stage was further confirmed when the resultant plantlets grown in the 3 % sucrose-containing medium were transferred to an in vitro tuberization medium containing either sucrose or maltose, each at 8 % (w/v). In this experiment, maltose and sucrose had indistingushable effects on in vitro tuberization.
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Yoon, K.S., Leung, D.W.M. Relative importance of maltose and sucrose supplied during a 2-step potato microtuberization process. Acta Physiol Plant 26, 47–52 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11738-004-0043-6
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