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Environmental and Stress Physiology

Growth and Photosynthetic Characteristics of Solanum tuberosum Plantlets Cultivated in Vitro in Different Conditions of Aeration, Sucrose Supply, and CO₂ Enrichment

Département de Physiologie Végétale et Ecosystèmes, CEA Centre de Cadarache, 13108 Saint Paul Lez Durance, Cédex, France

Growth characteristics, oxygen exchange, and carbohydrate and chlorophyll contents were determined 30 days after subculturing of single node-derived plantlets of Solanum tuberosum cv Haig cultivated in vitro. Cultivation conditions were: (a) photomixotrophy in closed vessel, (b) photomixotrophy in closed vessel on medium supplemented with silver thiosulfate, (c) photomixotrophy in aerated vessel, (d) photoautotrophy in air, (e) photoautotrophy in CO₂-enriched air. In photomixotrophic conditions, aeration of the vessel enhanced sucrose utilization and had a positive effect on plantlet growth. In photoautotrophic conditions, growth of the plantlets was slow in air and was strongly enhanced by CO₂ enrichment of the atmosphere. Starch to sucrose ratios were higher in plants grown photoautotrophically than in plants grown with sucrose in the medium. Oxygen exchange characteristics on a chlorophyll basis were similar between the plantlets when measured under moderate light, and resembled those of greenhouse plant leaves. In high light, however, plantlets grown photoautotrophically in a CO₂-enriched atmosphere had higher oxygen exchange rates. We concluded from these results that potato plantlets in vitro in conditions (c), (d), and (e) developed C3-plant photosynthetic characteristics, which were in photoautotrophically grown plantlets comparable to those of field-grown plants.

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