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In the normal form of Mammillaria elongata, shoots were regenerated in vitro, through callus, from tubercle explants excised from the upper part of the branch and cultured on Murashige and Skoog medium (MS) with 1.07 μM α-napthaleneacetic acid (NAA) and 22.20 μM 6-benzylaminopurine (BA). A high percentage of tubercles explants of the M. elongata cristate form, excised from the tip of the branch and cultured on MS with 0.54 μM NAA and 0.44 μM BA or 1.07 μM NAA, responded by initially forming an inflated cristate shoot, which gave cristate and normal shoots, without callus intervention, when transferred on basal MS. Callus formed on cristate tubercles explants gave both cristate and normal shoots when transferred onto basal MS. Normal and cristate shoots were rooted in vitro on MS with 9.84 μM or 0.98 μM indole-3-butyric acid, respectively, and established ex vitro. In both normal and cristate form, the differential response appeared to be associated with the site of the explant excision. The formation of shoots was influenced by the season of culture; i.e., explants excised in October had a higher shoot formation rate than those excised February.
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Papafotiou, M., Balotis, G.N., Louka, P.T. et al. In vitro plant regeneration of Mammillaria elongata normal and cristate forms. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 65, 163–167 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010601328667
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