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Biotechnology has offered a nonconventional method of plant propagation and has been intensively applied as a conservation strategy for sustaining biodiversity for rare plants. In vitro conservation through micropropagation of Ochreinauclea missionis, a rare, endemic and medicinal tree species of Western Ghats in Karnataka region of India is reported. Multiple shoots were initiated from nodal explants on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with 8.8 μM 6-benzylaminopurine (BA) and 0.3% (w/v) activated charcoal. Shoots were elongated in MS medium with a combination of 2.2 μM BA and 5.3 μM α-naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA) or growth regulator-free medium. Individual shoots with a minimum of one node were excised and rooted in vitro on MS medium with 0.3% activated charcoal or ex vitro rooted by treatment with 49 μM indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) for 30 min. Regenerants acclimated in Soil-rite exhibited 65% survival in the greenhouse.
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Dalal, N.V., Rai, R.V. in vitro propagation of Ochreinauclea missionis (Wall. EX G. Don), an ethnomedicinal endemic and threatened tree. In Vitro Cell.Dev.Biol.-Plant 37, 820–823 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11627-001-0136-5
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