Journal
PLANT BREEDING
Volume 125, Issue 3, Pages 243-247Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0523.2006.01206.x
Keywords
Avena sativa; Zea mays; 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid; dicamba; gibberellic acid; haploid; picloram; temperature
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Doubled haploids (DHs) are becoming increasingly important in crop breeding programmes but methods for producing oat DHs remain inefficient. In this study haploid and DH oat plants were produced using the oat x maize hybridization method. Factors influencing the rate of caryopsis and haploid embryo production including genotype, post-pollination plant growth regulator application and temperature were investigated. The four growth regulators tested showed significant differences in their capacity to induce caryopsis formation with dicamba producing the highest numbers of caryopses, followed by picloram, 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and gibberellic acid (GA(3)). No significant differences were observed between these growth regulators for their effect on embryo production. The concentration of dicamba was also important and was found to influence caryopsis but not embryo production, with 50 and 100 mg/l dicamba producing significantly more caryopses than 25 or 5 mg/l. Temperature had a significant impact on both caryopsis and embryo production with the magnitude and direction of response depending on genotype. Rates of haploid embryo production observed were between 0.8% and 6.7% of the pollinated florets. The proportion of haploids, which survived and were successfully doubled with colchicine following transfer to soil was between 72% and 81%.
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