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Three cultivars (cvs.) of Gladiolus hybridus Hort., namely ‘Her Majesty’, ‘Aldebaran’ and ‘Bright Eye’ were successfully micropropagated. The cultures were established using intact cormels or segments of cormels and inflorescence axes on Murashige and Skoog (1962; MS) medium. The response depended on media supplements; both callus formation or direct induction of shoot buds was observed. Shoot differentiation from callus could be obtained on MS medium containing 1.0 μM BA (6–benzyladenine) and 10.0 μM NAA (α-naphthalene acetic acid) in all three cultivars. The same could be achieved by giving a heat shock (HS; 50 °C, 1h) to callus cultures (in case of ‘Her Majesty’ and ‘Aldebaran’ only) maintained on the basal medium. In these two cultivars, high sucrose concentration (0.232, 0.290 or 0.348 M) also favoured growth and proliferation of shoot cultures on a plant growth regulator-free medium at 20 °C in comparison to the cultures kept at 25 °C. On the other hand, shoot cultures maintained on the basal medium at 25 °C containing normal (0.058 M, i.e., 2.0%, w/v) sucrose concentration responded similar to those maintained at 20 °C on a high sucrose medium; reduced response was observed on normal sucrose containing medium at 20 °C. Heat shock enhanced shoot proliferation in the cultures maintained on basal medium, but induced prolific rooting in shoot cultures, within 5 days of HS, on high sucrose (optimum 0.232 M) medium. While the number of roots increased at higher sucrose concentrations in the medium in case of cvs. ‘Her Majesty’ and ‘Aldebaran’, the same was found to be independent of sucrose concentration in cv. ‘Bright Eye’. Generally the rooted plants produced on high sucrose (0.232 M) medium in comparison to medium with normal sucrose concentration showed better survival (ca. 90% as against 40%) in the soil.
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Kumar, A., Sood, A., Palni, L. et al. In vitro propagation of Gladiolus hybridus Hort.: Synergistic effect of heat shock and sucrose on morphogenesis. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 57, 105–112 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006373314814
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