Regeneration of plants from protoplasts of Gentiana decumbens: (a) freshly isolated green leaf mesophyll protoplasts, (b) protoplasts in agarose bead culture, (c) regeneration of cell walls demonstrated by calcofluor staining, (d) daughter cells formed after the first division of a protoplast-derived cell, (e) multicellular aggregate obtained after 7 wk of protoplast culture, (f) callus proliferating on CPM4 medium, (g) regenerating somatic embryo at the cotyledonary stage, (h) mature somatic embryo before conversion into plantlet, (i) protoplast-derived plant, (j, k) leaf morphology of a protoplast-derived regenerant (j), and a seed-derived parent plant (k).