Research in Tissue Culture of Diploid Cotton Species

Diploid cotton species provide parental (ancestral) species for tetraploid cultivars and are the key germplasm resources for cotton genetic improvement. In addition, diploid cotton species supply excellent materials for mutant library construction and functional genomics. Diploid cotton species originated from Asia- Africa, America, Oceania regions with rich genetic diversity. The tissue culture research mainly involves regeneration of plant organs and cell culture, protoplast culture, somatic culture and fusion. The regenerated plants have been obtained in Gossypium klotzschianum, G. gossypioides, G. arboreum, G. davidsonii, G. raimondii, G. stocksii, G. nelsonii, G. bickii, etc. Among them, regenerated plants in shoot tip culture were only obtained in G. arboreum, G. bickii. Regenerated plantlets in protoplast culture were obtained in G. klotzschianum, G. davidsonii. Interspecific hybrids between G. hirsutum and diploid cotton of G. klotzschianum, G. stocksii and G. bickii were obtained, respectively. The tissue culture systems of diploid cotton were different from each other, and the strategy is similar to that in woody plants. This paper summarized the progresses in related researches and discussed the future research.