Celery lines with increased stick yield
AssigneeDNA Plant Technology Corporation
InventorsThomas J. Orton, Robert J. Whitaker
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Abstract
The present invention provides a method for improving stick yield of a celery line which comprises culturing an explant on a first medium containing at least one auxin to produce callus, culturing the callus on a second medium without growth regulators to produce embryos, growing embryos unit mature plants are obtained and recovering from the mature plants variants exhibiting a stick yield of at least about 25% over stick yield of the parent line. Also provided are novel celery plants, having improved stick yield.
Claims3
A celery plant having all of the characteristics of a plant produced by seed deposited with the American Type Culture Collection and assigned accession number 40621, and progeny, clones, and somaclones having all of said characteristics thereof.
Seed-deposited with the American Type Culture Collection and assigned accession number 40621.
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