In Vitro Shoot Regeneration of Oil Seed Crop Sesamum indicum L. from Seedling Cotyledon Explant to Lay Ground for Genetic Transformation in Ethiopia

Table 1

Mean square values of shooting and rooting variables from cotyledon explants.

Source	df	Full-strength MS shoot variables			Half-strength MS rooting variables
		LN	SN	SL	RL	RN	RR
Genotypes (G)	13	787.77	61.50	11.06	24.38	214.49	1398.80
Treatment (T)	4	904.43	99.08	21.59	15.41	1,119.55	12,958.30
Linear	1	2,185.15	327.72	36.02	0.47^ns	1,644.19	16,922.80
Deviations	3	477.53	28.87	16.78	20.39	944.67	11,636.80
G × T	52	149.03	7.75	2.12	10.47	265.80	1,588.50
Linear	13	171.83	12.30	3.40	14.17	136.93	1,448.10
Deviations	39	141.42	6.24	1.70	9.24	308.75	1,635.40
Residual	140	8.77	1.31	0.92	0.87	6.49	184.20
CV%		15.20	20.10	18.10	26.30	20.40	24.70

LF: leaf number; SN: shoot number; SL: shoot length; RL: root length; RN: root number; RR: rooting responses. ; ; ns: nonsignificant.