Review on Medicinal Plants Propagation: A Comprehensive Study on Role of Natural Organic Extracts in Tissue Culture Medium

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Thulasi Muneppa Sridhar, Chenna Reddy Aswath

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Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Bangalore, India.

ABSTRACT

Plant cell, tissue and organ culture is a set of techniques designed for the growth and multiplication of cells and tissues using organic nutrients in an aseptic and controlled physical environment. The exact conditions required to initiate and sustain plant cells in culture, or to regenerate intact plants from cultured cells, are different for each plant species. Tissue culture practices have shown that three factors namely explant choice, medium composition and control of the physical environment, are important in successful cultures. When completely defined plant culture media did not give the desired results, employing natural organic substances have beneficial effects on in vitro plant cell and tissue cultures. The composition of different culture mediums and the effects of natural compounds, including the supernatant and freeze dried biomass of well growing algal strains, are presented in the present review.

KEYWORDS

In Vitro, Plant Tissue Culture, Medicinal Plants, Culture Medium, Natural Organic Extracts

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Sridhar, T. and Aswath, C. (2014) Review on Medicinal Plants Propagation: A Comprehensive Study on Role of Natural Organic Extracts in Tissue Culture Medium. American Journal of Plant Sciences, 5, 3073-3088. doi: 10.4236/ajps.2014.520324. 

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