Kantamaht Kanchanapoom, Nirunya Buntin, and Kamnoon Kanchanapoom

pp. 587 - 590

Abstract

A tissue culture system was established from young leaves of in vitro grown seedling of Torenia fournieri Lind. Leaf segments were cultured on Murashige and Skoog medium (MS) medium supplemented with combinations of NAA and BA. Shoot organogenesis was observed in all growth regulators containing medium. High frequency regeneration was obtained from leaves cultured on MS medium supplemented with 0.05 mg/l NAA plus 3 mg/l BA. When individual isolated shoots were
transferred to MS medium devoid of growth regulators, complete plantlets were obtained. Adventitious shoots were also regenerated from callus that was derived from leaf explants and a high frequency of shoot organogenesis was found on MS medium containing 0.1 mg/l NAA plus 3 mg/l BA.