Somatic embryogenesis of alpataco (Prosopis alpataco L.).
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Boeri P., Sharry S. (2018) Embriogénesis somática de Alpataco ( Prosopis alpataco L.). En: Jain S., Gupta P. (eds) Protocolos paso a paso para la embriogénesis somática de importantes plantas leñosas. Ciencias forestales, vol. 85. Springer, Cham.
978-3-319-79087-9
978-3-319-79086-2
Autor
Boeri, Patricia Alejandra
Sharry, Sandra Elizabeth
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Resumen
Fil: Boeri, Patricia. Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. Río Negro, Argentina. Fil: Sharry, Sandra. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias y Forestales. Buenos Aires, Argentina. Prosopis alpataco is a multifunction species with great importance for soil support and wildlife refuge.
The alpataco is also an economically valued species, being used as food, fuel wood and medicinal resource by the indigenous communities of the arid Patagonian. The vegetative propagation of this genus has a great interest to advance the domestication, improvement, restoration and conservation of these multi-purpose plants. However, there is only one protocol reported for plant regeneration via somatic embryogenesis in the genus Prosopis (which comprises about 44 species). There is no protocol available for in vitro plantlet regeneration of alpataco. This chapter describes the embryogenic callus induction, somatic embryo development and germination of P. alpataco from cotyledonary explants.