Variation in Plants Regenerated from Protoplasts and Complex Explants of Potato

As part of the Agricultural Research Council’s programme on genetic manipulation of plants, the group at Rothamsted is interested in applying techniques of molecular biology to crop species using tissue culture. For potato (Solanum tuberosum) we have concentrated on two systems for regeneration of whole plants: (1) plant pieces (eg. leaf, rachis, petiole, tuber) (2) mesophyll protoplasts