Lallemantia iberica (Bieb.) Fisch. and C. A. Mey is high valued annual ornamental and medicinal plant from Lamiaceae family that prefers dry sunny hillsides, roadsides, slopes, and fallow fields over an altitude of 500-2150 m. It bears beautiful white flowers and bloom from April to June each year. This study reports L. iberica micropropagation using cotyledon node explants isolated from 15-day...

Plumbago zeylanica shows the presence of many phytochemical constituents which plumbagin, a type naphthoquinone, is vital and has major biological effects. Plumbagin majorly present in root plants, with minimal concentration other parts plant. However, extracting plumbagin from roots destructive harvesting. Thus, micropropagation could be viable alternative to reduce collection plant wild. Stud...

It is of interest to apply plant tissue culture to generate plants resistant to toxic effects of cadmium (Cd) on plant growth. Callus cultures were initiated from leaf explants of micropropagated potato plantlets (Solanum tuberosum L., cv. Iwa) for in vitro selection comprising 18 different Cd treatments varying in Cd exposure timing and duration. Plantlets regenerated from two different lines ...

Virus induced gene silencing (VIGS) is increasingly used to generate transient loss-of-function assays and has potential as a powerful reverse-genetics tool in functional genomic programs as a more rapid alternative to stable transformation. A previously described potato virus X (PVX) VIGS vector has been shown to trigger silencing in the permissive host Nicotiana benthamiana. This paper demons...

A tissue culture technique for micropropagation of chia (Salvia hispanica L.) was established. High percentage of seed germination (100%) was recorded on Murashige and Shoog medium enriched with 0.4 mg l gibberellic acid and 10 mg l ascorbic acid after one week of culture. The maximum number of shoots per explant (2.7) gave MS medium with 2 mg l 6-benzylaminopurine after five weeks of culture. ...

Banana (Musa spp.) is a crop with outstanding economic and social expression throughout the world. The objective of this study was to investigate effect different mulches types in growth production postharvest banana ‘BRS Platina’ not irrigated. experiment conducted farm Federal University Lavras (UFLA). Micropropagated plants cultivar BRS were planted field spacing 2.5 × 3.0 m (1333 ·ha-1), wi...