The present study was carried out to achieve synchronous germination of plant materials into vigorous plants of tea (camellia sinensis 1.), under ex vitro conditions. Sterilized zygotic embryos and zygotic embryonic axes ...

Wthe topic "tissue culture technology for rural agriculture development: a case study in WMhimbantota'' was selected because of the importance of adopting biotechnology in our i mm try, where agriculture is still the ...

The leaf, petiole, green stem, immature seed and anthers of Gossypium hirsutum L. (cotton) were cultured on the basic Murashige and Skoog (1962) medium (MS), supplemented with different types of growth regulators at varying ...

The study compares somatic embryo development in two local cultivars of Musa (Embul and Kolikuttu - AAB group). Meristematic cells on 1 basic Murashige and Skoog medium (MS) supplemented with 2,4-D (0.2 mg/L) and BAP ...

The aim of this study was to produce somatic embryos indirectly from embryogenic leaf callus of tea (Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze). Primary embryogenic colli (friable colli, 16 weeks after culture of in vitro leaf ...

Agriculture is the mainstay of the rural sector that occupies almost 75% of the total population. Farmers .no resource poor and face tremendous constraints in gaining access to information and knowledge that t.ould improve ...

Aim A species’ dispersal characteristics will play a key role in determining its likely fate during a period of environmental change. However, these characteristics are not constant within a species – instead, there is ...

During the past two decades numerous papers have been published on anther culture of rice. These studies clearly indicate that while anther culture is a technique that can be adopted for breeding japonica rice, it being ...

The anther culture ability of two local indica rice varieties were evaluated by anther plating on N6 and SK-I callus induction media. The traditional rice variety, Kurulu Thuda displayed good anther culture potential ...