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Embryonics axes with cotyledons, shoot-tips of embryonic axes, isolated cotyledons, as well as axillary buds and leaves from 20-year-old trees of Sophora toromiro, were evaluated for their capacity to trigger organogenesis and to regenerate plantlets under in vitro conditions. Embryonic shoot-tips were the only explants capable of regenerating plants. They developed rapidly in vitro in the presence of NAA and BA while in subculture roots were induced at the proximal end in the presence of 0.49 uM IBA within 40-60 days. Development was completed with a subculture phase under non-sterile conditions using a mixture of equal parts of sterilized vermiculite/sand/soil in growth chambers, before final acclimatation in the greenhouse. In the presence of NAA, BA and GA3, whole embryonic axes f[...]

Embryonics axes with cotyledons, shoot-tips of embryonic axes, isolated cotyledons, as well as axillary buds and leaves from 20-year-old trees of Sophora toromiro, were evaluated for their capacity to trigger organogenesis and to regenerate plantlets under in vitro conditions. Embryonic shoot-tips were the only explants capable of regenerating plants. They developed rapidly in vitro in the presence of NAA and BA while in subculture roots were induced at the proximal end in the presence of 0.49 uM IBA within 40-60 days. Development was completed with a subculture phase under non-sterile conditions using a mixture of equal parts of sterilized vermiculite/sand/soil in growth chambers, before final acclimatation in the greenhouse. In the presence of NAA, BA and GA3, whole embryonic axes formed multiple shoots that branched when grown in 2.27 or 11.35 uM TDZ in subculture. Similary, callus was initiated at the embryo axis base, developing into several new shoots
in the presence of TDZ. Because of the relatively high shoot induction rate along the embryonic axis, this axis presents a valuable source of new juvenile explants. Growth and rhizogenesis was satisfactory only when organs from seed pods of the year or from the previous season were used. Experiments with isolated cotyledons produced callus only, while axillary buds and leaves did not show any responses in the presence of several growth regulators assayed. Inoculation of seedlings with various strains of rhizobia under in vitro conditions resulted in root outgrowths, but not in nodules that are typical of rhizobia infection.