Maintenance of embryogenic potential of calli derived from embryonic shoot of West Coast Tall cv. of coconut (Cocos nucifera L.)

Maintenance of embryogenic potential of calli is important as the totipotency is often lost in a short time in vitro. This caters to the need for year round availability of somatic embryos in a regenerable state. In the present study, 14 media combinations, with either 2,4-D or picloram as auxin source, were tested for maintaining embryogenic calli obtained from embryonic shoot explants of coconut. Irrespective of type and concentration of auxins, callusing was observed in all the media combinations. However, high dose of 2,4-D (above 74.6 μM) in the initial medium resulted in intense browning and lesser percentage of callusing. Embryogenic nature of calli could be maintained to a maximum of 21 weeks in medium supplemented with 2,4-D (74.6 μM) and subsequent culturing into higher concentration of 2,4-D (90.4 μM). Gene expression studies carried out using qRT-PCR revealed that genes such as ECP, GST, LEAFY and WUS were highly expressed in long term embryogenic calli (21 week old) and genes such as SERK, GLP, WRKY and PKL in initial embryogenic calli (21 days old). The study concludes that coconut plumular calli could be maintained for longer periods without compromising on the embryogenic potential of the calli

Scintillator ageing of the T2K near detectors from 2010 to 2021

The T2K experiment widely uses plastic scintillator as a target for neutrino interactions and an active medium for the measurement of charged particles produced in neutrino interactions at its near detector complex. Over 10 years of operation the measured light yield recorded by the scintillator based subsystems has been observed to degrade by 0.9–2.2% per year. Extrapolation of the degradation rate through to 2040 indicates the recorded light yield should remain above the lower threshold used by the current reconstruction algorithms for all subsystems. This will allow the near detectors to continue contributing to important physics measurements during the T2K-II and Hyper-Kamiokande eras. Additionally, work to disentangle the degradation of the plastic scintillator and wavelength shifting fibres shows that the reduction in light yield can be attributed to the ageing of the plastic scintillator. The long component of the attenuation length of the wavelength shifting fibres was observed to degrade by 1.3–5.4% per year, while the short component of the attenuation length did not show any conclusive degradation

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