Anatomical and physiological studies of organogenesis in vitro of Passiflora cincinnata MAST.

Author(s)

Simone Pacheco Lombardi

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Piracicaba.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALA/BC)
• Defense date: 2004-01-23

Examining board members

Beatriz Appezzato da Gloria; Jane Elizabeth Kraus; Ilene Ribeiro da Silva Passos

• Advisor: Beatriz Appezzato da Gloria

Abstract

The progress of passionfruit culture in the country stimulated by the juice agroindustry and due to an increased demand of fresh fruit have brought phytosanitary problems, such as, diseases caused by fungis, bacterium and virus. The Passiflora cincinnata Mast. a resistant specie to Xanthomonas campestris f. sp. Passiflora bacterium shows a potential for commercialization creating an interest genotype in breedings programs. Whereas the tissue culture has been an important instrument for those programs, object of this program is to study the anatomical and physiologycal aspects of organogenesis "in vitro" of this specie. The explants used were: root segments, leaf discs and the seedlings obtained from germination of seeds "in vitro". They were placed in different solutions of 6-BA (benzyladenine) and with 5% of coconut water, in order to establish protocol for plant regeneration "in vitro". The concentration of 0,5 mg.L- 1 of 6-BA was the most adequate for all three explants, but the time and nourishement source (direct/indirect) to the shoots formation differed to each kind of explants. The histological events had lead the formation of a new organ, by meristemoids (meristematic centers) were described. In the leaf discs the indirect origin, was observed in which callus were formatted by the layer of chlorophyll parenchyma subepidermis cells. In the root segments and in the root plantets, the direct organogenesis showed two origins (source), from the pericycle, on the roots that starts at the secondary structure and from vascular cambium, on the roots that had already been established secondary structure. Also the root segments was seen by the indirect way, which callus were formatted by the pericycle proliferation. (AU)