TY - JOUR
T1 - Advances in coffee tissue culture and its practical applications
AU - Santana-Buzzy, Nancy
AU - Rojas-Herrera, Rafael
AU - Galaz-Ávalos, Rosa M.
AU - Ku-Cauich, José R.
AU - Mijangos-Cortés, Javier
AU - Gutiérrez-Pacheco, Luis C.
AU - Canto, Adriana
AU - Quiroz-Figueroa, Francisco
AU - Loyola-Vargas, Víctor M.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgment The authors thank the help of Emily Wortman-Wunder for the English correction of the manuscript. The work from VMLV laboratory is been funded by CONACYT (Grant No. 61415).
PY - 2007/12
Y1 - 2007/12
N2 - Genetic improvement of coffee, an important commercial crop, through classical breeding is slow and cumbersome. Biotechnology offers alternative strategies for generating new and improved coffee varieties, including those resistances to environmental extremes, pests, and diseases, low in caffeine, and with uniform fruit maturation. Large improvements in somatic embryogenesis, development of haploids, and scale-up of micropropagation have been accomplished in the last 5 yr. The recent identification of expressed sequence tags (EST) that are differentially expressed during the infestation of coffee plants by coffee leaf miners and the isolation and cloning of the promoter for the N-methyltransferase gene associated with caffeine production open up the possibility of producing varieties of coffee with new traits. This review provides a summary of in vitro biological advances and directions as to how they could be applied to improve the production and quality of coffee.
AB - Genetic improvement of coffee, an important commercial crop, through classical breeding is slow and cumbersome. Biotechnology offers alternative strategies for generating new and improved coffee varieties, including those resistances to environmental extremes, pests, and diseases, low in caffeine, and with uniform fruit maturation. Large improvements in somatic embryogenesis, development of haploids, and scale-up of micropropagation have been accomplished in the last 5 yr. The recent identification of expressed sequence tags (EST) that are differentially expressed during the infestation of coffee plants by coffee leaf miners and the isolation and cloning of the promoter for the N-methyltransferase gene associated with caffeine production open up the possibility of producing varieties of coffee with new traits. This review provides a summary of in vitro biological advances and directions as to how they could be applied to improve the production and quality of coffee.
KW - Biotechnology
KW - Coffea spp.
KW - Coffee
KW - Tissue culture
KW - Transformation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=37249076443&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11627-007-9074-1
DO - 10.1007/s11627-007-9074-1
M3 - Artículo de revisión
SN - 1054-5476
VL - 43
SP - 507
EP - 520
JO - In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology - Plant
JF - In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology - Plant
IS - 6
ER -