Horticultural Reviews, Volume 44

Table 4.1.

List of most relevant micropropagation studies with orchids.

Orchid species, cultivars,or hybrids

In vitrotechnique

Explant type

z

Culture medium

y

Plant growth regulatorsand additives

x

(μ

m)

References

Anacamptis pyramidalis

Shoot tip

PLB

MS

NAA (2.69–5.38), IBA

(2.47–4.93), IAA(2.86–5.71), coconutwater (15%)

Morel (1960)

Anoectochilus formosanus

Shoot tip

Shoot buds

Hyponex

BA (4.4–8.9)

Ket et al. (2004)

Arundina bambusifolia

Shoot tip

Shoots

Raghavan and

Torrey’s basalmedium (1964)

NA

Nagaraju and

Parthasarathy 1995

Cymbidium aloifolium

Shoot tip

PLB

N&N

NA

Devi et al. 1997

Cymbidium

atropurpureum

Shoot tip

PLB

VW

NAA (26.9)

Subramanium and Taha

(2003)

Dendrobium chrysotoxum

Shoot tip

PLB

KC

TDZ (2.0), BA (2.0, 8.0),

NAA (0.5–1.0)

Roy et al. (2007)

Dendrobium fimbriatum

var.

oculatum

Shoot tip

Callus

KC

BA (0, 4.44, 8.88, 13.32,

17.76), NAA (0, 2.69,5.38, 10.76)

Roy and Banerjee (2003)

Dendrobium wardianum

Shoot tip

PLB

MS

BA (11.1)

Sharma and Tandon

(1992)

Dendrobium

grex Sonia

Shoot tip

PLB

MS

Putrescine, spermidine,

spermine (0.02, 0.04,0.1), BA (4.44), NAA(5.38)

Saiprasad et al. (2004)

Dendrobium

grex Sonia

Shoot tip

Shoot buds

VW

BA (4.44), NAA (8.07)

Sheela et al. (2004)

Dendrobium

grex Joannie

Osterholt (

D.

phalaenopsis

×

D.

grex

Walter Oumae)

Shoot tip

PLB

VW

Coconut water (15%)

Sharon and Vasundhara

(1990)

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