Under sterile conditions, using tweezers, transfer five to 10 hairy root lines of Brassica napus on a dish containing regeneration medium. Seal the dish with gas permeable tape and culture at 21 degrees Celsius in a long-day photoperiod. Every three to four weeks, transfer the hairy roots to a Petri dish with fresh regeneration medium.
Observe the callous formation after approximately two weeks and shoot from the callous after two more weeks of callous formation. Individualize the shoots and transfer them to the plant culture box containing the shoot elongation medium. After two to three weeks, cut off the remnants of the callous from the shoot and transfer the elongated shoots to the plant culture box containing root induction medium.
Now transfer the rooted plant to the soil and acclimatize it first in the phytotrons Then transfer the plant to a greenhouse for flowering. To speed up the production of T1 plants, collect siliques containing mature green seeds from the T0 regenerants. While working in a sterile flow box, surface sterilize the siliques with 70%ethanol.
Place the siliques on a plate lid or a slide. Using a 24 gauge needle mounted on a one milliliter syringe, slit the siliques along the valve margins. Open the carpals and put them aside.
Collect the immature seeds and transfer them to a plate containing seed germination medium. Seal the plate and place it in a cultivation room until germination. Compared to the wild-type, hairy root regenerative of B.napus displayed a dwarf phenotype with dense root systems, wrinkled leaves, and altered flowering time.
