referred to as proliferation. The p

referred to as proliferation. The percentage proliferation refers to the number of samples that produced somatic embryos over the total samples tested when subcultured onto fresh medium × 100.The immature fruits from which the explants (nucellar tissue) were excised, were obtained from different sources.
a Strain refers to a group of mango plants of the same ‘Carabao’ variety wherein the characteristics of the tree and the fruits are the same when propagated, but are unique for each specific strain.
b Initial materials for in vitro culture came from immature fruits harvested from ‘Carabao’ mango trees at the field genebank of the Department of Agriculture, Lipa Experiment Station (DA-LAES), Lipa City, Batangas, Philippines, Batch 3-, April 2005;
c Initial materials for in vitro culture came from immature fruits harvested from ‘Carabao’ mango trees at the field genebank of the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB), College, Laguna, Philippines, Batch 4, March 2006;
d Initial materials for in vitro culture came from immature fruits harvested from ‘Carabao’ mango trees at the field genebank of the UPLB, College, Laguna, Philippines, Batch 5, March 2007
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Table 3 Effect of base media on proliferation of somatic embryos of
mango var. ‘Carabao ’ after 26 mo culture, Subculture Cycle 8, S8

‘Carabao’ variety, ‘Lamao’ strain Tree no. Proliferation (%)

B5 medium BP medium

2 100.0 –a
4 100.0 35.7
5 94.4 76.9
6 88.2 42.9
7 100.0 100.0
9 100.0 66.7