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Bulbs and aerial parts of the Nepalese plant Allium wallichii are widely used for medicinal purposes and as a spice. Due to overharvesting the natural populations of the species have been increasingly reduced and the domestication of the species should be considered. For the purpose of the production of plantlets suitable for field culture, a micropropagation procedure based on multiple shoot culture has been established. Multiplication factors of 4.6 on average were possible on MS medium supplemented with 20 μM zeatin. After rooting on MS medium with 10 μM indolebutyric acid, plantlets were acclimatized to greenhouse conditions and transferred to the field with good success.
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Wawrosch, C., Malla, P.R. & Kopp, B. Micropropagation of Allium wallichii kunth, a threatened medicinal plant of Nepal. In Vitro Cell.Dev.Biol.-Plant 37, 555–557 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11627-001-0096-9
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