Plant Tissue Cult. 12(2) : 147-154, 2002 (December)

Increased Growth of Micropropagated Banana (Musa paradisica) with VAM Symbiont

M. N. Thaker and Y. T. Jasraj¹

Department of Botany, Faculty of Science,The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara ?390002, India

Key words: Micropropagation, VAM, Banana, Increased growth

Abastract

Banana plantlets, regenerated through shoot-tip culture, were subjected to routine hardening procedure. One set of plantlets was supplied with VAM consortium (5 gm) in its rhizosphere and the other set served as control. During the experiment, appropriate conditions like temperature and humidity were maintained for plantlets subjected to hardening. Various plant growth parameters including chlorophyll content of leaves and percentage root colonization by VAM were studied at regular intervals of 20 days. The results revealed a significant increase in the overall growth of VAM- inoculated banana plantlets over the control.

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