Saving the endangered flora of Physalis minima by using in vitro technology

Saving the endangered flora of Physalis minima by plant tissue culture  Physalis minima is a promising medicinal plant of the family Solanaceae, but its survival is underthreat, and limited long-term conservation approaches are available. We employed an in vitro plant tissueculture technique to develop a mass propagation system for the effective multiplication and conservation of…

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In vitro flowering

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/btri/2014/264690/ In vitro flowering and effective micropropagation protocol were studied in Swertia chirayita, an important medicinal plant using axillary bud explants. The Murashige and Skoog’s medium (MS) supplemented with benzyl amino purine (BAP) 1.0  and adenine sulfate 70.0  was found optimum for production of multiple shoots. In the present study, incubation of flowering cultures on BAP supplemented medium (during…

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