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Comparative effects of explant sources and genotypes on microtuberization in yams (Dioscorea spp.)

Single node cuttings of two genotypes each of Dioscorea alata and D. rotundata from both plants grown in screen houses and in vitro plantlets were cultured in a tuberization medium. The screen house explants had significantly higher plantlet tuberization and primary nodal complex formation, and more...

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720 |a Balogun, M. O.  |e author 
720 |a Ng, S. Y. C.  |e author 
720 |a Shiwachi, H.  |e author 
720 |a Ng, N. Q.  |e author 
720 |a Fawole, I.  |e author 
260 |c 2004 
520 |a Single node cuttings of two genotypes each of Dioscorea alata and D. rotundata from both plants grown in screen houses and in vitro plantlets were cultured in a tuberization medium. The screen house explants had significantly higher plantlet tuberization and primary nodal complex formation, and more tubers and primary nodal complexes per plantlet than in vitro explants, whereas in vitro explants performed better only in nodes per plantlet. It appears that in vitro tuberization is explant- , species- and genotype-dependent, the greatest variation being due to explant source. This is a first report of microtuber production from nodal explants of D. rotundata produced in a screen house. 
024 8 |a 0041-3291 
024 8 |a Tropical Science 44, pp. 196-200 
024 8 |a ui_art_balogun_comparative_2004 
024 8 |a http://ir.library.ui.edu.ng/handle/123456789/8027 
653 |a Dioscorea 
653 |a Explant 
653 |a Genotype 
653 |a Microtuberizarion 
653 |a Yam 
245 0 0 |a Comparative effects of explant sources and genotypes on microtuberization in yams (Dioscorea spp.)