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Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences

Year: 2007 | Volume: 10 | Issue: 19 | Page No.: 3454-3457
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2007.3454.3457
Ex vitro Survival and Early Growth of Alpinia purpurata Plantlets Inoculated with Azotobacter and Azospirillum
I. Ovando-Medina, L. Adriano-Anaya, A. Chavez-Aguilar, A. Oliva-Llaven, T. Ayora-Talavera, L. Dendooven, F. Gutierrez-Miceli and M. Salvador-Figueroa

Abstract: The survival rate, shoot and root dry mass, shoot number, plant growth, stem height and diameter, number of leaves and root length were measured in micropropagated plantlets of Alpinia purpurata (Red ginger) inoculated with Azospirillum sp. 11B and Azotobacter sp. Pachaz 008 at 107, 108 and 109 cells cm3 using a complete randomized experimental design. Inoculation of A. purpurata plantlets with the Azospirillum sp. 11B or Azotobacter sp. PACHAZ 008 strains induced larger stem diameter, root dry mass, number of shoots and increased their survival rate from 77 to 100% compared to plantlets without inoculation, while other plant characteristics were not affected.

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I. Ovando-Medina, L. Adriano-Anaya, A. Chavez-Aguilar, A. Oliva-Llaven, T. Ayora-Talavera, L. Dendooven, F. Gutierrez-Miceli and M. Salvador-Figueroa, 2007. Ex vitro Survival and Early Growth of Alpinia purpurata Plantlets Inoculated with Azotobacter and Azospirillum. Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, 10: 3454-3457.

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