Selection of Salt-Tolerant Jojoba (Simmondisa chinensis L.) Cultivars via In Vitro Culture

Jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis L.) is a perennial shrub adapted to dry and hot climates. It produces high-quality seed oil that widely used in the industrial, cosmetic, pharmaceutical sectors. Soil salinity often constraint plants grown under desert conditions. Thus, present study, we aim select establish salt tolerant-jojoba cultivars using vitro culture. seeds were sown on germination media supplemented with various amounts of seawater achieve final solute concentrations 2000-, 3000-, 5000 ppm. Shoot tips from seedlings selected different levels subsequently cultured multiple-shoot induction media, followed by root at same as which explants selected. We germinated, multiplied, rooted, acclimatized could sustain up 3000 Among all levels, those 2000 ppm found have highest growth multiplication parameters during rooting stages. In addition, these also contained high chlorophyll a, b, carotenoid contents.