The present work gives a detailed study of in vitro shoot organogenesis of the ornamental onion A. altissimum Regel from the buds of the middle layer of the inflorescences. The course of morphogenesis was examined by light and scanning electron microscopy. Histological observation revealed that during 3 5 days of culture on the BDS medium supplemented with 2.0 mg∙L−1 of BA and 2.0 mg∙L1 of NAA ...

Imagine a textbook entitled Developmental Biology that focuses entirely on plants, mentioning animals only for their peculiar way of making germ cells by setting aside a group of precursor cells early in the embryo. The converse has been, and still is, common practice. It is true that the regenerative potential of plants, which is indeed impressive, sets them apart from the more familiar animal...

Elicitation effect on the production of asiaticoside and asiatic acid in shoot, callus, cell suspension culture Centella asiaticaM. Laxmi Krishnan, Arpita Roy, Navneeta Bharadvaja

The growth performance of Rhizophora apiculata Blume (mangrove) seedlings in the presence and absence of exogenous gibberellic acid (GA3) under different combinations of salinity and light was analyzed. Root and shoot growth responses of 75-day old seedlings in liquid-culture, were measured. It was concluded that light exhibited a significant inhibitory effect on all the growth parameters-numbe...

Greenhouse pot culture studies were conducted to evaluate the bioremediation potential of spinach for removal of cadmium. The results indicated that spinach was able to take up cadmium in substantial quantity in the shoot. There were no visual cadmium toxicity effects on spinach and no significant reduction in the dry matter yield up to 20 μg g cadmium. Significant growth retardation of fenugre...