title: Morphological diversity of androgenic carrot plants.
abstract: The aim of this study was to evaluate phenotypic variation of R0 androgenic plants obtained from four seed sources and donor plants by anther culture. Several morphological traits (leaf size, petiole length, leaf division, cortex colour) and the range of diversity were evaluated. There was large variation in all traits among the donor varieties. Especially leaf division and cortex colour differed significantly among the androgenic plants that came from different seed sources. The plants regenerated from four donor plants of variety 62 were significantly different in most traits except for leaf width and cortex colour. Evaluation of R1 plants will demonstrate whether the R0 variation observed is due to genetic variation or physiological differences from tissue culture.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, Research Institute of Vegetable Crops, ul. Konstytucji 3 Maja 1/3, 96-100 Skierniewice, Poland. ekozik@inwarz.skierniewice.pl
authors.forename: Elzbieta U
authors.initials: EU
authors.lastname: Kozik
authors.forename: Renata
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nowak
authors.forename: Urszula
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Kłosińska
authors.forename: Krystyna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Górecka
authors.forename: Dorota
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Krzyzanowska
authors.forename: Ryszard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Górecki
mesh_terms: D000728:Androgens / Q000378:metabolism*; D018552:Daucus carota / Q000145:classification* / Q000378:metabolism; D010641:Phenotype
chemical_list: D000728:Androgens