Comprehensive Medicinal Plant Database

Tissue Culture Literation

Plant latin nameZingiber officinale Roscoe
Literature codeZingiber_officinale-Ref-2
ReferenceSharma TR and Singh BM, Plant Cell Reports 15: 274-277 (1995)
SummaryMicrorhizomes of Zingiber officinale were successfully produced from tissue culture derived shoots by transferring them to liquid MS medium supplemented with 1 mg/l BAP, 2 mg/l calcium pantothenate, 0.2 mg/l GA3 and 0.05 mg/l NAA for shoot proliferation. After 4 weeks of incubation, the medium was replaced with microrhizome induction medium, consisting of MS salts supplemented with 8 mg/l BAP and 75 g/l sucrose. Microrhizome formation started after 20 d of incubation in stationary cultures at 25+1 °C in the dark. Microrhizomes with 1-4 buds and weighing 73.8 to 459 mg each were harvested after 50-60 d. After storage for 2 months in moist sand at room temperature, 80% of the microrhizomes sprouted producing roots and shoots.
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Explant
Initial culture
Shoot multiplication
Rooting
Acclimation
Planting
Cultivation conditions
Traints of regenerants
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