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Abstract

Surface-sterilized leaf sections from mature Venus fly trap (Dionaea muscipula Ellis) plants produced several adventitious plantlets when cultured on full strength Lin and Staba medium or a reduced strength Murashige and Skoog growth medium supplemented with 0.5-25 μM cytokinin. Zeatin at 9.0 or 22.5 μm was found to be most effective in inducing adventitious shoot formation. These shoots were excised and subcultured on a low salt medium to generate roots. The rooted plants then were transferred to sterilized peat moss and grown to maturity. A large number of plants could be regenerated through repeated subculture of leaf segments.

Department

Biological Sciences

Publication Date

4-1-1985

Journal Title

HortScience

Publisher

American Society for Horticultural Science

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.20.2.216

Document Type

Article

Comments

This is an open access article published by American Society for Horticultural Science in HortScience, available online: https://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.20.2.216

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