The gerbera market would benefit from an efficient and simple protocol for high rate regeneration for propagation and genetic engineering. With these objectives, this investigation was done on shoot regeneration via direct organogenesis from leafy petiole explants of Gerbera jamesonii ‘Royal Soft Pink’. Murashige and Skoog (1962) (MS) medium was supplemented with 0.1 mg L-1 indole-3-acetic acid...

Gerbera(Gerbera jamesonii) from the family of Asteraceae is regarded as one of the best cut flowers in the world. Despite of the publicity of Gerbera’s cut flowers, they have a short postharvest life. The objective of the present study was to study the replacement feasibility and the comparison of thymol (isolated from zataria), and essential oils of peppermint and rosemary (200, 400 and 600 mg...

in order to determine the best growing media for gerbera jamesonii under alkaline conditions, a factorial experiment was conducted with two factors, namely: (i) growing medium, and (ii) concentrations of bicarbonate (nahco3) in nutrient solution. results showed that increasing the concentration of nahco3 from 0 to 40 mm in nutrient solution significantly decreased plant growth, maximal quantum ...