Genetic stability in date palm micropropagation

Abstract

Application of plants derived tissue culture is depended on genetic stability of them. The purpose of present study was the studying of genetic stability in date palm (Var. Berhi) micropropagation. In this study 3 enzyme systems of PRX, SHD and ACP were used by electrofocusing method on polyacrylamide gel. The result of this experiment showed that, only in ACP system, differences were not observed and micropropagated plants of this variety were similar to each other as well as their original plant but in two enzyme systems of PRX and SHD showed polymorphism and the number of bands and their location on the gel were different between original and micropropagated plant. © 2008 Asian Network for Scientific Information.