Journal
PHYSIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF PLANTS
Volume 24, Issue 5, Pages 963-971Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12298-018-0559-7
Keywords
Plumbago rosea; Synthetic seed; Germplasm exchange; Conservation
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- Kerala Agricultural University, India
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Plumbago rosea L. (Plumbaginaceae), is a medicinal shrub commercially exploited for its naphthoquinone principle, plumbagin, extracted from the roots especially for treating skin disorders. As the plant is exploited from the wild without being replenished, conservation of the species becomes inevitable. Synthetic seeds would provide for effective conservation, germplasm exchange and distribution of this species. A reliable protocol for synthetic seed production in Plumbago rosea has been developed encapsulating the axillary buds. The axillary buds from P. rosea cultures established and multiplied using the nodal explants in Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with Benzyl Adenine (BA) 1.5 mg/L and Indole 3-Acetic acid 1.0 mg/L, were used for synseed production. The plantlet conversion efficiency was the highest in synthetic seeds developed with sodium alginate 2.5% in modified MS with 0.4 M sucrose and CaCl2 100 mM. This combination gave the earliest bud initiation (9.19 +/- 0.39 days) and maximum number of shoots per explant (2.31 +/- 0.16 shoots). Microshoots from the culture, when inoculated on to MS medium supplemented with Naphthalene Acetic Acid 1.0 mg/L gave the best rooting response with 10.67 +/- 0.94 roots per plant and 5.42 +/- 0.29 cm root length. This is the first report of synthetic seed production in P. rosea using axillary buds as explant.
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