commit b96809e2ba76fc2250f4a75dde3047a37120a844 Author: baiobelfer Date: Sat Oct 26 19:03:51 2024 +0200 init diff --git a/main.pdf b/main.pdf new file mode 100644 index 0000000..44dd72b Binary files /dev/null and b/main.pdf differ diff --git a/main.tex b/main.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5593f67 --- /dev/null +++ b/main.tex @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article} + +\usepackage{amsmath} +\usepackage{geometry} +\usepackage{fancyhdr} +\usepackage{graphicx} + +% Page setup +\geometry{left=2.5cm, right=2.5cm, top=2.5cm, bottom=2.5cm} +\pagestyle{fancy} + +% Header and Footer +\lhead{Biotechnologia PCz 2024} +\rhead{Grupa I} +\lfoot{Commit UUID with timestamp} +\rfoot{\thepage} + +% Document title +\title{\textbf{Practical 2}\\ Establishment of axenic culture of plants as explant source for \textit{in vitro} experiments} +\author{M.D. Gaj} +\date{} + +\begin{document} + +\maketitle + +\section*{Objectives} +\begin{itemize} + \item To learn methods of plant material sterilisation. + \item To gain experience in establishment and maintenance of sterile culture of seedlings and plants. + \item To establish a sterile culture of \textit{Arabidopsis thaliana} and \textit{Nicotiana sp.} plants used as an explant source in Practicals 3, 7, and 8. +\end{itemize} + +\section*{Introduction} +To avoid the process of plant material sterilisation, sterile culture of plants growing in \textit{in vitro} conditions are recommended as a source of the explants. When fragments of seedlings are used as the explants, seeds can be sterilised and germinated \textit{in vitro}, providing axenic seedling culture. + +In the case the explants are taken from mature plant tissue, usually the donor plants cannot be maintained in axenic culture, and the process of sterilisation cannot be avoided. + +One of the exceptions are the species from the \textit{Solanaceae} family (e.g., tomato, tobacco), which are easily maintained in \textit{in vitro} culture by a propagation of so-called "cuttings" cultured on an MS10 agar medium. Plants from germinated \textit{in vitro} seeds of \textit{Solanaceae} family can be propagated by cuttings. +\end{document} +