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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2023, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (12): 21-27.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb2022-0564

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Identification of Salt Tolerance for Sweet Potato Tissue Culture Seedlings

GUO Huihui(), LIN Congfa, JIANG Yuanbin, XU Shaoxiang, LIN Zeyu, PAN Xianghua()   

  1. Institute of Agricultural Sciences of Ningde City, Ningde, Fujian 355017
  • Received:2022-07-07 Revised:2022-10-27 Online:2023-04-25 Published:2023-04-21

Abstract:

Salt-tolerant germplasm of sweet potato is screened by evaluating the salt tolerance of sweet potato tissue culture seedlings. In this study, seven sweet potato varieties were used as test materials, and the stem segments of the test materials were inoculated into Murashige and Skoog (MS) media containing 0, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 g/L NaCl, followed by the measurement of vine length, germination rate, rooting rate, root number and salt damage index after 30 days. The comprehensive evaluation of salt tolerance for sweet potato materials was carried out by using Statistic Package for Social Science (SPSS) cluster analysis and membership function. The results showed that ‘Funingzi No.4’ and ‘Funingzi No.5’ were sensitive materials. The root growth was completely inhibited and vine growth was inhibited by 90% in MS medium containing 2 g/L NaCl. ‘Funingzi No.3’, ‘Funingzi No.6’, ‘Funingshu No.12’, ‘Funingshu No. 20’ and ‘Funingshu No.23’ showed certain resistance to salt damage in the appropriate concentration range of salinity. All the indicators indicated that, the seven sweet potato varieties were ordered in terms of salt tolerance strength as follows: ‘Funingshu No.12’ > ‘Funingzi No.3’ > ‘Funingzi No.6’ > ‘Funingshu No. 20’ > ‘Funingshu No. 23’ > ‘Funingzi No.4’ > ‘Funingzi No.5’.

Key words: sweet potato, tissue culture seedlings, identification of salt tolerance, phenotypic response, membership function analysis