Abstract
Conditions for plant regeneration from excised shoot tips of Vigna radiata were studied. Complete plants were regenerated directly without an intervening callus phase from shoot tips on basal medium (MS salts+B5vitamins). Regeneration frequency varied with genotype, explant size and growth regulator combinations in the medium. Addition of cytokinins induced a variable amount of callus at the base of the shoot tip, followed by multiple shoot formation. Benzyladenine (BA), kinetin and zeatin at 5×10-6 M each induced multiple shoots in 100% of the explants but the highest number of regenerants per explant (9) was produced with BA. The efficacy of BA for shoot multiplication was not improved when it was supplemented with naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA) or indoleacetic acid (IAA). NAA or adenine sulphate, when applied alone, induced complete plantlets. The growth regulator requirement of explants for the induction of multiple shoots varied with explant size. The shoot tip explants maintained proliferation ability on subculture. None of the treatments was effective in inducing shoot bud differentiation from callus. Regenerated shoots were rooted on MS basal medium and MS supplemented with either IAA or indolebutyric acid. The rooted plants were transferred to the field; 60% subsequently survived and grew.
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Abbreviations
- BM:
-
basal medium [MS (Murashige & Skoog 1962) salts+B5 (Gamborg et al. 1968) vitamins]
- BA:
-
6-benzyladenine
- AdS:
-
adenine sulphate
- IAA:
-
indole-3-acetic acid
- NAA-1:
-
naphthaleneacetic acid
- IBA:
-
indolebutyric acid
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Gulati, A., Jaiwal, P.K. In vitro induction of multiple shoots and plant regeneration from shoot tips of mung bean (Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek). Plant Cell Tiss Organ Cult 29, 199–205 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00034353
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