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Tissue Culture and Somatic Embryogenesis in Warm-Season Grasses—Current Status and Its Applications: A Review
Author(s)
Muguerza, Melody Ballitoc
Gondo, Takahiro
Ishigaki, Genki
Shimamoto, Yasuyo
Umami, Nafiatul
Rahman, Mohammad Mijanur
Akashi, Ryo
Date Issued
May 1, 2022
Type
Article
Abstract
Warm-season grasses are C4 plants and have a high capacity for biomass productivity. These grasses are utilized in many agricultural production systems with their greatest value as feeds for livestock, bioethanol, and turf. However, many important warm-season perennial grasses mul-tiply either by vegetative propagation or form their seeds by an asexual mode of reproduction called apomixis. Therefore, the improvement of these grasses by conventional breeding is difficult and is dependent on the availability of natural genetic variation and its manipulation through breeding and selection. Recent studies have indicated that plant tissue culture system through somatic em-bryogenesis complements and could further develop conventional breeding programs by micro-propagation, somaclonal variation, somatic hybridization, genetic transformation, and genome ed-iting. This review summarizes the tissue culture and somatic embryogenesis in warm-season grasses and focus on current status and above applications including the author’s progress.
Citation
Plants, 11(9), 2022