Table 1.
Composition of modified artificial nutrient media
| Component | Medium composition, mg/l | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MSmod* | QLmod | DKWmod | NAMmod | NRMmod | |
| NH4NO3 | 1650.0 | 400.0 | 1416.0 | 900 | 530 |
| KNO3 | 1900.0 | 1800.0 | – | 250 | 550 |
| KH2PO4 | 170.0 | 270.0 | 265.0 | 1550 | 1300 |
| MgSO4×7H2O | 370.0 | 360.0 | 740.0 | 2050 | 1650 |
| K2SO4 | – | – | 1600.0 | – | – |
| Ca(NO3)2×4H2O | – | 833.8 | 1365 | 1050 | 700 |
| CaCl2×2H2O | 440.0 | – | 150 | 45 | 90 |
| FeSO4×7H2O | 27.80 | 33.8 | – | ||
| Na2MoO4×2H2O | 37.3 | 45.4 | – | ||
| Ferrilene 4.8 Orto-Orto | – | 114.63 | |||
| MnSO4×4H2O | 22.3 | 0.76 | 33.5 | 6.0 | 20.0 |
| H3BO3 | 6.2 | 4.80 | 11.0 | 6.5 | |
| ZnSO4×7H2O | 8.6 | – | 11.0 | 8,8 | |
| Zn(NO3)2 | – | 17.0 | – | – | |
| CuSO4×5H2O | 0.025 0.25 | 0.25 | 3.2 | 2.5 | |
| Na2MoO4×2H2O | 0.39 | 0.1 | 2.5 | ||
| CoCl×6H2O | 0.025 | – | |||
| KJ | 0.83 | 0.08 | – | ||
| NiSO4×6H2O | – | 0.0053 | – | ||
| BAP | 1.5 during introduction and multiplication and 0.3 during rhizogenesis | ||||
| IBA | 0.3 during introduction and multiplication and 1.5 during rhizogenesis | ||||
| Vitamin B1 | 1.0 | ||||
| Vitamin B6 | 0.6 | ||||
| Vitamin PP | 1.0 | ||||
| Vitamin C | 3.0 | ||||
| Meso-inositol | 100.0 | ||||
| Glycine | 1.0 | ||||
| Sucrose/glucose | Sucrose 30 × 103 almond; glucose 15 × 103 hazelnut | ||||
Table 2.
Self-intoxication of primary explants depending on the medium and growing conditions of donor plant varieties, %
| Variety | Nutrient medium | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MSmod | QLmod | DKWmod | NAMmod | NRMmod | |
| Hazelnut | |||||
| Trapezund | 100/16* | 98/11 | 83/4 | 70/2 | 24/1 |
| Jefferson | 98/19 | 91/12 | 77/9 | 63/1 | 22/0 |
| Tonda Gentile Romana | 100/32 | 98/26 | 90/11 | 66/3 | 29/2 |
| Almond | |||||
| E5 Borozan | 23/12 | 6/2 | 21/18 | 6/1 | 8/3 |
| M41 Alex | 19/12 | 5/2 | 12/9 | 0/0 | 7/2 |
| Georgia | 14/10 | 3/1 | 11/9 | 0/0 | 4/0 |
| Louise | 8/6 | - | 6/5 | 0/0 | 1/0 |
Table 3.
The height of regenerants on the 90th day of in vitro cultivation on different nutrient media
| Variety | Nutrient medium | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MSmod | QLmod | DKWmod | NAMmod | NRMmod | |
| Height of regenerants, mm | |||||
| Hazelnut | |||||
| Trapezund | 59/23* | 63/27 | 98/79 | 86/74 | 116/91 |
| Jefferson | 41/16 | 58/32 | 108/87 | 88/75 | 109/101 |
| Tonda Gentile Romana | 79/29 | 72/35 | 111/86 | 99/70 | 121/97 |
| Almond | |||||
| E5 Borozan | 84/21 | 93/73 | 39/12 | 123/98 | 97/69 |
| M41 Alex | 78/18 | 84/71 | 37/13 | 134/94 | 96/66 |
| Georgia | 71/13 | 69/63 | 33/15 | 103/84 | 81/61 |
| Louise | 45/12 | 67/64 | 23/12 | 101/85 | 77/63 |
Table 4.
The height of regenerants on different unloading media on the 90th day of propagation, mm
| Variety/media | Nutrient medium | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DKWmod | ULM* | DKWmod | NRMmod | ULM | NRMmod | |
| Passage | ||||||
| 5 | 6 | 7/12 | 5 | 6 | 7/12 | |
| Hazelnut | ||||||
| Trapezund | 79 | 100 | 111/77 | 91 | 109 | 133/98 |
| Jefferson | 87 | 106 | 110/83 | 101 | 112 | 139/104 |
| Tonda Gentile Romana | 86 | 113 | 122/91 | 97 | 108 | 151/ 99 |
| Variety/media | QLmod | ULM | QLmod | NAMmod | ULM | NAMmod |
| Passage | ||||||
| 5 | 6 | 7/10 | 5 | 6 | 7/10 | |
| Almond | ||||||
| E5 Borozan | 73 | 106 | 109/65 | 98 | 112 | 114/95 |
| M41 Alex | 71 | 102 | 106/54 | 94 | 116 | 109/81 |
| Georgia | 63 | 91 | 98/57 | 84 | 94 | 103/69 |
| Louise | 64 | 97 | 101/50 | 85 | 90 | /94/69 |
Table 5.
The height of regenerants on the 90th day of propagation with different selection of passages and cytokinin–auxin index, mm
| Variety | Multiplication | Induction of rhizogenesis | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passage | ||||||
| 5 | 6 | 7/10 | 5 | 6 | 7/10 | |
| Cytokinin–auxin index | ||||||
| 1.5/0.3 | 0.3/1.5 | 1.5/0.3 | 0.3/1.5 | 1.5/0.3 | 0.3/1.5 | |
| Hazelnut | ||||||
| Trapezund | 91 | 114 | 109/90 | 109 | 129 | 130/99 |
| Jefferson | 101 | 121 | 97/94 | 117 | 132 | 139/103 |
| Tonda Gentile Romana | 97 | 124 | 111/96 | 103 | 121 | 132/97 |
| Almond | ||||||
| E5 Borozan | 98 | 103 | 100/91 | 102 | 107 | 103/104 |
| M41 Alex | 94 | 100 | 97/89 | 108 | 112 | 107/101 |
| Georgia | 84 | 91 | 89/83 | 94 | 99 | 97/91 |
| Louise | 85 | 93 | 86/74 | 96 | 97 | 98/90 |

Figure 1.
Reduction of biometric dimensions of regenerants of the Jefferson variety during long-term cultivation on a medium with an excess of auxins on 30th day of cultivation (the figures correspond to the passage number)
Table 6.
The height of the shoot of regenerants at different concentrations of BAP for fifth, seventh and 10th passages by the overlay passage method, mm
| Variety | BAP concentration, mg/l | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 2.5 | |
| Hazelnut | |||||
| Trapezund | 92/90/90* | 98/94/96 | 91/83/79 | 71/66/62 | 61/51/- |
| Jefferson | 100/102/99 | 105/107/99 | 98/95/83 | 89/76/74 | 70/65/61 |
| Tonda Gentile Romana | 98/97/100 | 96/98/97 | 93/88/85 | 73/58/53 | 59/52/50 |
| Almond | |||||
| E5 Borozan | 76/74/78 | 99/98/98 | 98/64/52 | 51/43/41 | 36/-/- |
| M41 Alex | 71/73/75 | 102/103/96 | 94/61/52 | 46/38/36 | 33/-/- |
| Georgia | 69/66/68 | 97/98/96 | 84/55/51 | 41/32/30 | 30/22/- |
| Louise | 67/66/64 | 94/92/95 | 85/82/56 | 44/33/33 | 18/-/- |

Figure 2.
The condition of hazelnut regenerants of the Tonda Gentile Romana variety on a medium with 1.0 mg/l BAP and 0.3 IBA on the 30th day of propagation (the figures correspond to the passage number)

Figure 3.
The condition of regenerants of the hazelnut variety Tonda Gentile Romana on a medium with 0.3 mg/l BAP and 1.5 IBA on the 30th day of propagation (the figures correspond to the passage number)

Figure 4.
Hyperhydration of hazelnut regenerants of the Tonda Gentile Romana variety during passaging on media with the addition of 2.5 mg/l BAP and 1.5 mg/l gibberellin (the figures correspond to the passage number)

Figure 5.
Callus formation in vitro in hazelnut and almond explants with the simultaneous addition of high concentrations of cytokinin BAP and IBA to the nutrient medium: (a) callus formation of hazelnut regenerants of the Tonda Gentile Romana variety on the medium with the addition of 2.5 mg/l BAP and 2.5 mg/l IBA; (b) rosette stem of almond regenerants of variety M41 Alex on the medium with the addition of 1.0 mg/l BAP and 1.0 mg/l IBA; (c) rosette stem and callus formation of almond regenerants of variety M41 Alex on the medium with the addition of 1.5 mg/l BAP and 1.5 mg/l IBA; (d) callus formation of almond regenerants of the M41 Alex variety in the basal part of the cutting explant on the medium with the addition of 2.0 mg/l BAP and 2.0 mg/l IBA; (e) callus formation of almonds of the M41 Alex variety over the entire surface of the cutting explant on the medium with the addition of 2.5 mg/l BAP and 2.5 mg/l IBA
Table 7.
Shoot height of regenerants depending on the age of mother plants of explant donors at different periods of passage, mm
| Variety | Age of donors, days | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 45 | 90 | 120 | 180 | |
| Hazelnut | |||||
| Trapezund | 35/24/- | 49/41/32 | 97/84/81 | 112/109/115 | 116/114/119 |
| Jefferson | 36/31/29 | 41/32/29 | 98/95/83 | 123/127/119 | 122/127/124 |
| Tonda Gentile Romana | 39/30/- | 44/35/31 | 93/89/85 | 126/119/129 | 129/133/130 |
| Almond | |||||
| E5 Borozan | 28/-/- | 54/52/36 | 98/84/52 | 101/111/113 | 143/148/149 |
| M41 Alex | 17/-/- | 47/43/26 | 94/81/52 | 98/95/103 | 141/146/145 |
| Georgia | -/-/- | 36/33/- | 84/65/51 | 89/91/92 | 103/105/104 |
| Louise | 24/-/- | 39/37/30 | 85/72/56 | 96/99/99 | 107/109/110 |
Table 8.
The height of the progeny shoots with different duration of the dormant state of explant donors, mm
| Variety | Age of donors, days | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 45 | 90 | 120 | |
| Hazelnut | ||||
| Trapezund | 99 | 114 | 139 | 131 |
| Jefferson | 98 | 114 | 154 | 152 |
| Tonda Gentile Romana | 96 | 107 | 133 | 138 |
| Almond | ||||
| E5 Borozan | 95 | 102 | 109 | 110 |
| M41 Alex | 91 | 100 | 103 | 101 |
| Georgia | 87 | 93 | 108 | 105 |
| Louise | 84 | 98 | 112 | 121 |

Figure 6.
In vitro cultivation of Tonda Gentile Romana hazelnut explants during pre-adaptation: (a) coconut; (b) pearlite; (c) a mixture of pearlite and coconut (1:1)
Table 9.
Peculiarities of the photoautotrophic microclonal propagation of hazelnut plants with different pre-adaptation of the Tonda Gentile Romana variety
| Indicator | Mediumт | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| coconut | pearlite | mixture of pearlite and coconut (1:1) | ||||
| Germination conditions | ||||||
| in vitro | micro greenhouse | in vitro | micro greenhouse | in vitro | micro greenhouse | |
| Survival rate, % | 58 | 67 | 60 | 69 | 69 | 94 |
| Damaged leaf area, % | 12 | 27 | 15 | 19 | 12 | 14 |
| The height of plants on the 14th day of growing FMP, mm | 189 | 213 | 162 | 184 | 221 | 267 |