In-vitro proliferation of Musa balbisiana improves with increased vitamin concentration and dark culturing
Musa balbisiana is a wild banana genotype with important traits such as drought tolerance and disease resistance. Uniform and clean plants are often required to study these traits in different laboratories but plants can only be generated through a tissue culture process yet for a long time a protoc...
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Open Science Publishers LLP (India)
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| author | Ssekiwoko, F. Talengera, D. Kiggundu, A. Namutebi, M.K. Karamura, E.B. Kunert, Karl J. |
| author_browse | Karamura, E.B. Kiggundu, A. Kunert, Karl J. Namutebi, M.K. Ssekiwoko, F. Talengera, D. |
| author_facet | Ssekiwoko, F. Talengera, D. Kiggundu, A. Namutebi, M.K. Karamura, E.B. Kunert, Karl J. |
| author_sort | Ssekiwoko, F. |
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| description | Musa balbisiana is a wild banana genotype with important traits such as drought tolerance and disease resistance. Uniform and clean plants are often required to study these traits in different laboratories but plants can only be generated through a tissue culture process yet for a long time a protocol for regeneration of the same has not been available. Here, we demonstrate that modification of the anti-oxidant content of the in- vitro plant proliferation medium through adjusting the concentration of ascorbic acid and thiamine HCl in the basal MS medium together with subjecting the explants to dark culturing conditions improved proliferation of M. balbsiana by over 10 fold. These treatments resulted in 40 shoots per initial explant material at the best performance. |
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| publishDate | 2014 |
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| spelling | CGSpace660722025-11-12T05:41:38Z In-vitro proliferation of Musa balbisiana improves with increased vitamin concentration and dark culturing Ssekiwoko, F. Talengera, D. Kiggundu, A. Namutebi, M.K. Karamura, E.B. Kunert, Karl J. antioxidants ascorbic acid disease resistance drought resistance musa balbisiana Musa balbisiana is a wild banana genotype with important traits such as drought tolerance and disease resistance. Uniform and clean plants are often required to study these traits in different laboratories but plants can only be generated through a tissue culture process yet for a long time a protocol for regeneration of the same has not been available. Here, we demonstrate that modification of the anti-oxidant content of the in- vitro plant proliferation medium through adjusting the concentration of ascorbic acid and thiamine HCl in the basal MS medium together with subjecting the explants to dark culturing conditions improved proliferation of M. balbsiana by over 10 fold. These treatments resulted in 40 shoots per initial explant material at the best performance. 2014 2015-05-13T13:59:59Z 2015-05-13T13:59:59Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/66072 Open Access application/pdf Open Science Publishers LLP (India) Ssekiwoko, F.; Talengera, D.; Kiggundu, A.; Namutebi, M.K.; Karamura, E.; Kunert, K. -2014-In-vitro proliferation of Musa balbisiana improves with increased vitamin concentration and dark culturing-Journal of Applied Biology & Biotechnology 2(3)-p. 001-007 |
| spellingShingle | antioxidants ascorbic acid disease resistance drought resistance musa balbisiana Ssekiwoko, F. Talengera, D. Kiggundu, A. Namutebi, M.K. Karamura, E.B. Kunert, Karl J. In-vitro proliferation of Musa balbisiana improves with increased vitamin concentration and dark culturing |
| title | In-vitro proliferation of Musa balbisiana improves with increased vitamin concentration and dark culturing |
| title_full | In-vitro proliferation of Musa balbisiana improves with increased vitamin concentration and dark culturing |
| title_fullStr | In-vitro proliferation of Musa balbisiana improves with increased vitamin concentration and dark culturing |
| title_full_unstemmed | In-vitro proliferation of Musa balbisiana improves with increased vitamin concentration and dark culturing |
| title_short | In-vitro proliferation of Musa balbisiana improves with increased vitamin concentration and dark culturing |
| title_sort | in vitro proliferation of musa balbisiana improves with increased vitamin concentration and dark culturing |
| topic | antioxidants ascorbic acid disease resistance drought resistance musa balbisiana |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/66072 |
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