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4. 2. 1. 4. Post-irradiation management<br />

After the evaluation of the explants growth at the laboratory,<br />

each treatment/cultivar growing in the Erlenmeyer flask were propagated<br />

three times using the same composition of the liquid medium mentioned<br />

above, in order to increase the number of explants <strong>for</strong> nursery <strong>and</strong> field<br />

conditions experiments, that were conducted in Ecuador. They regenerated<br />

into shoot tips <strong>and</strong> then they were planted individually into a test tube<br />

containing 10 mL of MS solid medium. Additionally, 0.5 mg of activated<br />

carbon <strong>for</strong> rooting was added by applying on the solid medium surface. A<br />

total of 1707 rooted plantlets were sent to Ecuador (December, 2005) in<br />

autoclaved plastic bags. Processing plants <strong>for</strong> bagging is shown in Fig. 23.<br />

The numbers of plantlets per cultivar/doses were as follows: <strong>for</strong><br />

‘Williams’ in the doses of 0 (94), 0.5 (95), 1 (105), 2 (95), 4 (32), 8 (87),<br />

16 (103), 32 (70), 64 (95) <strong>and</strong> 128 Gy (60). For ‘Cavendish Enano’ in the<br />

doses of 0 (55), 0.5 (95), 1 (95), 2 (100), 4 (80), 8 (40), 16 (80), 32 (53), 64<br />

(53) <strong>and</strong> 128 Gy (100). The materials were found free of viruses such as<br />

Banana Bunchy Top Virus (BBTV), Banana Bract Mosaic Virus (BBMV)<br />

<strong>and</strong> Banana Streak Virus (BSV) by using ELISA virus indexing technique.<br />

They also were free of any other pest <strong>and</strong> disease including nematodes,<br />

Mycosphaerella fijiensis, Fusarium oxisporum, <strong>and</strong> so <strong>for</strong>th.<br />

The plantlets arrived in the Laboratory of Biotechnology of the<br />

Estación Experimental Tropical Pichilingue, Instituto Nacional Autónomo<br />

de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIAP), Ecuador. Immediately, the bags<br />

containing the plantlets were kept in the tissue culture room at 26 o C <strong>and</strong><br />

light conditions <strong>for</strong> two days to recover photosynthesis. When arrived, the<br />

banana material showed injured probably occurred during transportation<br />

(Fig. 24).<br />

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