AU - Ebrahimi, M AU - KHayam Nekoei, S.M AU - Kadkhodaei, S TI - Study of Some Factors Influencing Embryogenesis and Maturation of Soybean (Glycine max) Somatic Embryos PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE TA - JSTNAR JN - JSTNAR VO - 12 VI - 46 IP - 46 4099 - http://jstnar.iut.ac.ir/article-1-1116-en.html 4100 - http://jstnar.iut.ac.ir/article-1-1116-en.pdf SO - JSTNAR 46 ABĀ  - Somatic embryogenesis is affected by several factors. In this research project, we studied the effect of explant size, wounding and desiccation treatments on somatic embryogenesis and their conversion into plantlet among three genotypes of soybean. The explants were sampled from immature embryos of soybean in three different sizes (3, 5 & 7 mm) with wounding treatment on half of each, and then were cultured on the somatic embryogenesis medium. In order to determine desiccation effect on conversion amount of embryos into plantlets, the produced embryos were affected by three levels of desiccation treatments (2, 4 & 6 days). The increase ratio of callus mean weight, percentage of embryogenic calli, embryo number per explant and percentage of embryo conversion to plantlet were used for treatment evaluation. Variance analysis of the data showed significant differences (P CP - IRAN IN - LG - eng PB - JSTNAR PG - 167 PT - Research YR - 2009