title: The specificity and genetic background of the rye (Secale cereale L.) tissue culture response.
abstract: Rye is one of the most important crops in Eastern and Northern Europe. Despite the numerous beneficial features of rye, its annual production decreases successively which correlates with the lack of progress in its breeding compared with other cereals. Biotechnological methods could effectively improve the breeding of rye. However, their application is highly limited by the absence of an efficient procedure for plant regeneration in vitro, since rye is one of the most recalcitrant cereals with regard to the tissue culture response (TCR), and successful regeneration is highly dependent on genotype. Efforts to understand the genetic mechanisms controlling TCR of rye have elucidated some basic aspects, and several genes and genome regions controlling this trait have been identified. The aim of this review is to summarize the limited current knowledge of this topic.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, SGGW, Nowoursynowska St 159, 02-776, Warsaw, Poland. malgorzata_targonska@sggw.pl
authors.forename: Małgorzata
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Targońska
authors.forename: Aneta
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hromada-Judycka
authors.forename: Hanna
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bolibok-Brągoszewska
authors.forename: Monika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rakoczy-Trojanowska
mesh_terms: D032461:Chromosomes, Plant / Q000235:genetics; D040641:Quantitative Trait Loci / Q000235:genetics; D012434:Secale / Q000235:genetics*; D013045:Species Specificity; D046509:Tissue Culture Techniques / Q000379:methods*