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Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences

Year: 2001 | Volume: 4 | Issue: 5 | Page No.: 562-563
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2001.562.563
An Efficient and Economical Method of Mass Multiplication of Virus and Disease Free Banana Using Plant Tissue Culture Techniques
Saifullah Khan, Yusuf Zafar, Aneela Yasmeen and Bushra Saeed

Abstract: Of the five supportive materials tried, MS with cotton fiber was found to be the best for rapid growth and plants were ready for further sub-culturing after two weeks while the control showed the same results after six weeks. Addition of table sugar was tested against sigma sucrose. Both gave the same growth of banana plants.

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Saifullah Khan, Yusuf Zafar, Aneela Yasmeen and Bushra Saeed, 2001. An Efficient and Economical Method of Mass Multiplication of Virus and Disease Free Banana Using Plant Tissue Culture Techniques. Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, 4: 562-563.

Keywords: Micropropagation, banana, in vitro and MS, cytokinine

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