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hours, photographs of the leaf-discs were taken by using a digital camera<br />
Minolta Dimage <strong>for</strong> necrotic areas percentage estimation. Photos were<br />
processed using the GIMP 2.2 software by selecting h<strong>and</strong>-drawn regions<br />
<strong>and</strong> their pixels. The percentage of necrotic area was calculated by the<br />
following <strong>for</strong>mula:<br />
Pixels of the full disc - Pixels of the green area<br />
Disc necrotic area (%) = ---------------------------------------------------------- x 100<br />
4. 3. Results <strong>and</strong> Discussion<br />
Pixels of the full disc<br />
4. 3. 1. Assessment of banana explants in laboratory conditions<br />
4. 3. 1. 1. Explants slicing conditioning <strong>for</strong> ion-beams irradiation<br />
The analysis of variance <strong>for</strong> regeneration rate (%) reported high<br />
significance <strong>for</strong> slicing methods. The Tukey analysis (P≦0.05), also<br />
reported significant differences between the slicing methods, but there are<br />
not significant differences among the cultivars. However, when the weight<br />
of the explants was analyzed, this analysis reported significant difference<br />
between cultivars.<br />
The Fig. 34 shows the relationships of the explants weight (A)<br />
<strong>and</strong> regeneration rate (B) with the two slicing methods (vertical <strong>and</strong><br />
horizontal) in ‘Williams’ <strong>and</strong> ‘FHIA-01’, 13-days after culture. Vertically<br />
sliced cuttings showed the highest regeneration rate (%) in both cultivars as<br />
is shown in Fig. 35. Values of 60-70% of regeneration rate were obtained<br />
in ‘Williams’ <strong>and</strong> ‘FHIA-01’ using the vertical cutting in contrast to only<br />
37-43% in horizontally sliced cuttings. The weight of the explants were<br />
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