Fateme Ashiri

Department of Horticultural Science, College of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.

[ 1 ] - Tragacanth, a Novel and Cheap Gelling Agent in Carnation and Miniature Rose Tissue Culture Media

The natural tragacanth gum, the sap of Astragalus gummifer, has been successfully used as a gelling agent in tissue culture media for in vitro shoot development and proliferation of miniature rose and carnation. Shoot development of nodal segments excised from greenhouse grown plants, was investigated on MS medium solidified with either 2.5, 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0% tragacanth or 0.8% agar as control....

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