Table 1.
Percentage of induction of secondary somatic embryogenesis of peach palm in different culture conditions and during different cycles of 6 weeks each
| Callus | Spongy tissue | Development of secondary somatic embryos |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Low | Medium | High | |||
| 1st solid | 7·7 ± 2·1bc | 26·2 ± 2·9b | 66·2 ± 3·1b | 14·4 ± 1·7b | 35·5 ± 2·0a | 16·3 ± 2·7b |
| 2nd solid | 7·6 ± 2·8bc | 26·2 ± 2·4b | 65·8 ± 3·0b | 21·8 ± 2·4b | 37·8 ± 4·3a | 6·2 ± 2·0bc |
| 3rd solid | 1·3 ± 0·5c | 11·1 ± 4·2a | 86·6 ± 4·1a | 35·5 ± 6·0a | 41·3 ± 8·6 a | 9·7 ± 4·5bc |
| 4th solid | 0·0 ± 0·0c | 31·1 ± 1·8b | 70·2 ± 2·3ab | 40·8 ± 2·5a | 26·6 ± 2·5ab | 2·6 ± 0·9c |
| 2nd TIS | 21·4 ± 2·7a | 0·0 ± 0·0c | 78·6 ± 2·7ab | 16·5 ± 2·2b | 13·3 ± 2·9b | 48·8 ± 4·5a |
| 3rd TIS | 16·0 ± 3·1ab | 0·0 ± 0·0c | 83·9 ± 3·0a | 13·4 ± 2·3b | 19·5 ± 4·2ab | 50·9 ± 3·0a |
| 4th TIS | 15·3 ± 3·5ab | 0·0 ± 0·0c | 84·6 ± 3·5a | 9·7 ± 1·0b | 10·7 ± 3·7b | 64·2 ± 5·8a |
| TIS/Solid | 9·3 ± 2·4bc | 0·4 ± 0·4c | 86·2 ± 5·0a | 4·9 ± 2·7b | 13·7 ± 2·6b | 63·5 ± 6·7a |
Data are means ± s.e. Means followed by different lower-case letters in the column represent statistical differences identified by SNK analysis (P < 0·05).