Although the more significant effect was observed with the low responsive genotypes ‘04’ and ‘46’, it was observed that even the high responsive ‘36’ responded positively to the addition of AC.
The magnitude of the response to the addition of AC varied with the different genotypes. The best results were obtained with ‘46’with increases in ELSs yield of 208.3%. For all the other accessions, the increasing efficiency of AC on ELSs yield varied from 38.5% in ‘36’ to 171.2% in ‘04’.
The present results are in accordance with the observations of Supena et al. (2006)who sawa significant increase in the in vitro and ro genesis of pepper on 1% AC medium no matter the low and high responsive microspore culture genotypes.